April 26, 2013
ISO New England's proposal filed at FERC to revise its financial assurance and billing policies by changing the cure percentage for a Market Participant that receives one or more margin calls within a rolling 365-day period would, "balkanize credit policies and create an undue preference for one…
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April 22, 2013
Granting a complaint from demand response providers, FERC rejected, on procedural grounds, new policies instituted by PJM applicable to demand response offers in the capacity market.
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April 22, 2013
EDF Trading North America, LLC is to purchase a 25% interest in a retail supplier holding company under a subscription agreement.
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April 18, 2013
Carbnfoot, Inc., a Canadian carbon credit marketing company, is launching a retail energy supplier in the United States.
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April 16, 2013
A filing by Ohio Power Company at FERC is meant to preserve a favorable revenue stream for AEP to the extent an Ohio court overturns a decision by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Industrial Energy Users-Ohio charged in a FERC filing.
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April 4, 2013
As Texas considers resource adequacy, and specifically demand response, it should view skeptically claims, especially from capacity owners, that the fastest and most effective way to develop demand response resources is to introduce a centralized capacity market.
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April 1, 2013
The New York ISO has filed at FERC tariff modifications to better align the credit requirements for imports to, exports from, and wheels through (External Transactions) the New York Control Area with the associated market risk.
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April 1, 2013
Just as it has done in the Northeast, FERC is setting up the California market for FERC's preferred resource adequacy construct, ordering a technical conference to "collectively" pursue solutions to "reliability," but in reality meaning generation adequacy.
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March 25, 2013
Ameresco Names New Senior Director of Energy Supply Management
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March 25, 2013
Rumford Paper Company will pay a civil penalty of $10 million, and disgorge $2.8 million, under a settlement with FERC to resolve allegations that Rumford engaged in fraudulent conduct in its participation in ISO-New England, Inc.'s (ISO-NE) Day-Ahead Load Response Program (DALRP)
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March 19, 2013
FERC exceeded its statutory powers in fining a natural gas trader $30 million for allegedly manipulating natural gas futures contracts because the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over all transactions involving commodity futures contracts, the United States Court of…
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March 11, 2013
Dominion announced today that it has signed a purchase and sale agreement for three merchant generation power stations with a subsidiary of funds controlled by Energy Capital Partners, a private equity firm.
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February 13, 2013
FERC largely accepted a compliance filing from ISO New England concerning implementation of offer floors in the Forward Capacity Market, and denied a related complaint from state regulators concerning the offer floors.
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February 11, 2013
The New York ISO has filed tariff changes at FERC to modify the calculation of Locational Based Marginal Pricing (LBMPs) during periods of scarcity, to allow for pricing to reflect scarcity conditions on a localized basis.
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February 11, 2013
Twin Cities Power, LLC, which operates as a retail supplier as Town Square Energy, submitted an application at FERC to reflect a change in the ownership of its parent.
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February 11, 2013
FERC has set for hearing and settlement judge procedures, suspending for the maximum five-month period, a proposed formula rate to establish the capacity rate charged to competitive service providers at Appalachian Power Company (AEP) in Virginia.
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February 7, 2013
Executives formerly with MXenergy and Credit Suisse Energy have joined a start-up retail supplier co-founded by the principal of an advertising agency that served over 50 of the Fortune 500 companies.
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February 6, 2013
A "settlement" among certain stakeholders, notably PJM and capacity owners, to revise the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) in PJM's capacity market, such that the MOPR applies to a larger set of capacity offers, is "deficient," a delegated FERC order found yesterday.
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February 4, 2013
FERC last week clarified that its prior suspension of the market-based rate authority of J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation did not modify or abrogate pre-existing contracts
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February 4, 2013
FERC approved a stipulation under which Oceanside Power, LLC will pay a civil penalty of $51,000 and disgorge $29,000 to resolve an investigation by FERC's Office of Enforcement regarding whether Oceanside violated the Commission's Anti-Manipulation Rule, 18 C.F.R. § 1c.2.
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February 1, 2013
FERC accepted without modification a contented settlement to establish new Cost of New Entry (CONE) values for the PJM capacity market, to take effect for the May 2013 base residual auction.
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January 25, 2013
Hess Commences Tolling Agreement in ISO New England
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January 23, 2013
DB Energy Trading LLC will pay a $1.5 million civil penalty, and disgorge $172,000 plus interest, to resolve a FERC show cause proceeding regarding manipulation of California power markets.
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January 18, 2013
FERC Issues Policy Statement on Allocation of Merchant Transmission Capacity
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January 17, 2013
Linden VFT, LLC has filed a complaint at FERC seeking an order directing Brookfield Energy Marketing, LP and Cargill Power Markets, LLC to pay Linden VFT for certain PJM costs that Linden argues are allowed to be passed-through to the marketers under certain Transmission Scheduling Rights Purchase…
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