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April 22, 2011
FERC proposed requiring certain market participants that are not subject to Section 205 of the Federal Power Act to file electric quarterly reports (EQRs), which FERC said would enhance market transparency.
April 19, 2011
FERC denied PJM's request for a declaratory order concerning a methodology that would determine, "when an entity does not have an economic or commercial interest that would be significantly affected by PJM's actions or decisions."
April 19, 2011
The National Energy Marketers Association has announced speakers for its upcoming 14th Annual National Energy Restructuring Conference on April 26-27 in Washington, D.C.
April 18, 2011
PJM's current tariff regarding the conduct of the incremental auctions under the Reliability Pricing Model could require PJM to seek to procure or release too many or too few capacity commitments relative to the reliability requirement, PJM said in a filing to revise the tariff.
April 14, 2011
Essentially providing a bailout to generators due to low capacity prices in ISO New England, FERC directed ISO-NE to develop a mitigation regime that relies on benchmark pricing for so-called out-of-market (OOM) capacity, but which does not procure more capacity than the Installed Capacity…
April 13, 2011
FERC denied a complaint from EnerNOC against FirstEnergy Corp. relating to the Fixed Resource Requirement integration auctions which were part of moving the American Transmission Systems Inc. load into PJM (EL10-63).
April 13, 2011
FERC yesterday rushed to adopt tariff changes regarding the PJM Reliability Pricing Model administrative capacity mechanism which are solely designed to raise the capacity prices paid by end use customers by up to $3 billion, in accepting revisions related to the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR).
April 11, 2011
Seminole Energy Services, LLC and several affiliates will pay a civil penalty of $300,000, and disgorge $271,315 plus interest, under a settlement with FERC to resolve an investigation into the bidding of multiple Seminole Energy affiliates into a March 2007 open season on Cheyenne Plains Gas…
April 11, 2011
National Fuel Marketing Company, LLC and several affiliates will pay a civil penalty of $290,000 under a settlement with FERC to resolve an investigation into the bidding of multiple National Fuel Marketing affiliates into a March 2007 open season on Cheyenne Plains Gas Pipeline.
April 11, 2011
The Midwest ISO has petitioned FERC for a declaratory order, asking that FERC confirm that the terms of the Joint Operating Agreement in effect between the Southwest Power Pool and MISO, regarding the sharing of transmission capacity on a common path, will remain in effect and applicable to Entergy…
April 11, 2011
FERC has issued a NOPR to prohibit multiple affiliates of the same entity from bidding in an open season for pipeline capacity in which the pipeline may allocate capacity on a pro rata basis, unless each affiliate has an "independent business reason" for submitting a bid (RM11-15).
April 7, 2011
"[B]arriers that exist in the MISO [Midwest ISO] market make Ameren a less attractive market," than Commonwealth Edison and other PJM residential markets, several retail suppliers told the Illinois Commerce Commission.
April 5, 2011
AEP has filed a section 206 complaint at FERC seeking changes to the capacity cost compensation mechanism for utilities using the Fixed Resource Requirement (FRR), after the Commission rejected the AEP Ohio companies' earlier attempt, through a section 205 filing, to raise the capacity costs charged…
March 30, 2011
FERC ruled yesterday that New Brunswick Power Generation Corporation satisfies the Commission's standards for market-based rate authority in the New Brunswick System Operator balancing authority area, dismissing a complaint from Integrys Energy Services (EL09-32).
March 24, 2011
A determination by the ISO New England Internal Market Monitoring Unit that 151 MW of new energy efficiency resources resulting from state sponsored programs, which had sought to bid into the fifth Forward Capacity Auction, are out of market could result in hundreds of millions of dollar in…
March 22, 2011
The California ISO has identified an "exploitation" of the existing bid cost recovery tariff rules which has caused load to overpay certain resources by $57 million, CAISO said in submitting tariff changes to prohibit the practice (ER11-3149).
March 18, 2011
Energy Plus Holdings, LLC Anticipates 10,000 Customers at ComEd Within 60 Days
March 18, 2011
In another order which will eventually raise retail electric rates, FERC mandated the use of a using a "one day in ten year" loss of load criterion in resource adequacy studies in the ReliabilityFirst region (RM10-10).
March 16, 2011
FERC issued an order yesterday directing that demand response providers be paid the full Locational Marginal Price when such payment is "cost effective" based on a net benefits test (RM10-17).
March 15, 2011
Constellation Energy Launches New Website
March 10, 2011
ICEA Seeks Rehearing on ComEd Combined POR Uncollectibles Rate
March 9, 2011
PJM has petitioned FERC for a limited waiver to allow a defaulting PJM Member, York Generation Company, L.L.C., the limited ability to participate in PJM's energy and capacity markets until York has satisfied its outstanding payment obligation to PJM pursuant to the terms and conditions of a payment…
March 7, 2011
PJM's Reliability Pricing Model, "may provide near-term value to system reliability, [but] these short term solutions will not provide for long-term SOS needs," Maryland PSC Chairman Douglas Nazarian said in testimony protesting proposed changes from PJM and the PJM Power Providers Group regarding…
March 4, 2011
FERC said yesterday that it will treat a joint statement from PJM and the Independent Market Monitor regarding the Guaranteed Load Drop (GLD) baseline methodology for measuring demand response, "as if it were never issued."
March 2, 2011
A consultant's "preferred" method of transferring Sharyland's Stanton and Colorado City divisions from the Southwest Power Pool to ERCOT is not viable, but two other alternatives which contemplate a complete transfer of the divisions into ERCOT would still benefit customers, Sharyland said in…
