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December 31, 2010
FERC approved PJM Settlement, Inc.'s request to guarantee the obligations of PJM and authorized other securities-related requests, dismissing protests from several competitive market participants (ES11-8).
December 31, 2010
FERC has re-prioritized initiatives designed to mitigate the impacts of Lake Erie loop flows, emphasizing interface pricing revisions and congestion management/market-to-market coordination agreements while removing buy-through congestion as a top priority (ER08-1281).
December 30, 2010
Pa. PUC Reports Zero Slamming Complaints Against Competitive Suppliers in 2009 The Pennsylvania PUC's Bureau of Consumer Services did not receive any residential consumer complaints alleging slamming by an electric generation supplier or natural gas supplier during 2009, the Commission said in an…
December 28, 2010
FERC's proposal to adopt an electric reliability standard requiring planning coordinators within ReliabilityFirst Corporation to analyze, assess, and document resource adequacy annually using a "one day in ten year" loss of load criterion exceeds FERC's authority under the Federal Power Act and…
December 28, 2010
Maine PUC Discloses Standard Offer Supply Winners NextEra Energy Power Marketing, LLC won 33% of the Standard Offer load requirements for the residential and small commercial customer class at Central Maine Power for the three year period beginning March 1, 2011. New Brunswick Power Generation…
December 27, 2010
The New York ISO has filed with FERC proposed tariff revisions to improve shortage pricing for its Regulation Service and Operating Reserves products by modifying the existing demand curves applicable to those products to better reflect the value of energy during shortage conditions and to improve…
December 23, 2010
FERC has approved Constellation Energy's acquisition of the portfolio of Boston Generating, dismissing conditions sought by Nstar and finding that the acquisition will have no adverse effect on competition (EC10-85).
December 23, 2010
PJM has submitted to FERC modifications to its calculation of Peak Market Activity, used to set a market participant's credit requirements, to remove situations where a revised methodology adopted earlier this year could result in higher than anticipated credit requirements.
December 21, 2010
An analysis of the New York ISO ICAP market for the Winter 2009-2010 and Summer 2010 Capability Periods did not raise any withholding concerns, the New York ISO reported to FERC.
December 20, 2010
Interpreting the PJM Reliability Assurance Agreement as eliminating a Fixed Resource Requirement (FRR) entity's ability to seek relief from FERC regarding the cost paid for capacity under an FRR plan where a state-established compensation mechanism is set would, "render[] the provision invalid or…
December 17, 2010
FERC Approves FirstEnergy-Allegheny Merger In an unsurprising decision given its merger review history, FERC approved the merger of FirstEnergy Corp. and Allegheny Energy without any conditions relating to mitigation of market power. In doing so, FERC rejected protests from the Pennsylvania Office…
December 14, 2010
ICC to Consider ComEd POR Case Wednesday The Illinois Commerce Commission will further consider Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables tariff filing (Docket 10-0138) at its December 15 Bench Session. EnergyChoiceMatters.com will provide live blogging of the meeting . The filed tariff's…
December 13, 2010
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has asked FERC to dismiss the application of Columbus Southern Power and Ohio Power to institute a formula rate for capacity compensation from retail suppliers, given that PUCO action has made the issue moot (FERC Docket ER11-2183).
December 9, 2010
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio yesterday expressly adopted the current capacity charges established by the three-year capacity auction conducted by PJM, Inc. as the as the state's capacity compensation mechanism for Columbus Southern Power and Ohio Power, during the pendency of a newly…
December 9, 2010
The Midwest ISO has filed with FERC the general "foundation" which MISO expects will govern further revisions to its resource adequacy mechanism, which may potentially include a five-year forward obligation for load serving entities to purchase capacity, and a mandatory capacity auction.
December 8, 2010
PUCO Opens Docket on AEP Ohio Capacity Pricing PUCO has opened a docket entitled, "In The Matter Of The Commission Review Of The Capacity Charges Of Ohio Power Company And Columbus Southern Power Company." Other than the opening docket sheet, nothing is contained in the docket at this time…
December 6, 2010
PJM has petitioned FERC for approval of two new demand response products for the Reliability Pricing Model capacity auction, which PJM said would enhance PJM's emergency dispatch options while recognizing, through capacity resource commitments, the expanded response capabilities that are latent in…
December 6, 2010
Fireside Natural Gas Receives Waivers to Offer Prepaid Product in Georgia The Georgia PSC approved Fireside Natural Gas, LLC's requested waivers of applicable disconnection rules to allow Fireside to offer a prepaid natural gas product. Fireside customers will be offered the same published fixed and…
December 3, 2010
PUCT Commissioners discussed at yesterday's open meeting several areas in which they may seek additional legislative guidance or authority through recommendations in the scope of competition report. Commissioners did not adopt a final report with legislative recommendations at yesterday's meeting…
December 3, 2010
The Michigan PSC has directed the electric distribution utilities to file specific tariffs governing the participation of retail customers in RTO markets, but delayed the filing of such tariffs until further orders from FERC regarding participation of aggregators of retail customers (ARCs), which…
December 1, 2010
The New York ISO has filed with FERC an application to set the ICAP demand curves for the Capability Years of 2011/2012, 2012/2013 and 2013/2014.
November 30, 2010
New York State Electric & Gas Corporation petitioned FERC for rehearing of the Commission's October 28 order denying NYSEG's request to rebill certain charges dating back 10 years to correct metering errors from both NYSEG and Niagara Mohawk (EL09-26).
November 29, 2010
FERC directed the New York ISO to make several changes to its proposed methodologies for determining the duration of in-City buyer-side mitigation in the ICAP market (ER10-3043, Only in Matters, 9/28/10 ), finding that the original proposals, "potentially may over- or under-mitigate the exercise of…
November 29, 2010
The new capacity compensation formulas proposed by Columbus Southern Power and Ohio Power "may not be cost-based" and may "result in the double recovery of capacity costs," because they fail to consider capacity equalization payments pursuant to the AEP-East Interconnection Agreement, the Ohio…
November 22, 2010
Columbus Southern Power and Ohio Power have petitioned FERC to alter how competitive retail electric service (CRES) providers in Ohio compensate the AEP Ohio utilities for capacity under the utilities' use of the Fixed Resource Requirement of the Reliability Pricing Model.
