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May 30, 2014
Public Utility Commission of Texas Chair Donna Nelson filed a memo in advance of today's open meeting concerning issues related to prospective transmission system upgrades, ancillary services, and the transmission planning process related to renewable resources, as well as problems that have arisen…
May 30, 2014
NRG Energy and Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed for Commission approval of an amended voluntary mitigation plan that specifies offering practices that NRG can use when offering its generation resources into the ERCOT real-time and day-ahead energy and ancillary service…
May 22, 2014
An order opening an investigation of FirstEnergy Solutions' use of pass-through clauses to pass-on ancillaries charges to fixed rate customers is not listed on the agenda for today's Pennsylvania PUC public meeting as the agenda appears posted online.
May 19, 2014
Under a preliminary PJM Staff recommendation concerning "reforms" to the capacity market, PJM would allow generators to earn windfall energy market revenues without such revenues being used to offset the compensation required from the capacity market.
May 19, 2014
Luminant Energy, LLC has submitted to ERCOT Nodal Protocol Revision Request 626, Operating Reserves Demand Curve (ORDC) Price Reversal Mitigation Enhancements
May 16, 2014
The Pennsylvania Office of the Small Business Advocate has filed at the Pennsylvania PUC a new petition for a declaratory order requesting that the Commission issue an order declaring that FirstEnergy Solutions, "is not permitted to recover the costs billed to it by PJM for ancillary services costs…
May 15, 2014
A proposed Texas order would grant an appeal regarding ERCOT's manual overrides of Odessa-Ector Power Partners, L.P.'s High Dispatch Limit (HDL) on November 15, 16, and 20, 2012.
May 12, 2014
FirstEnergy Solutions' decision to pass-on higher PJM ancillary costs to customers on fixed contracts is in violation of several rules, a coalition of municipalities alleged in comments to PUCO.
April 25, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC has stayed consideration of a petition for a declaratory order concerning permissibility of the pass-through clauses used by FirstEnergy Solutions to pass higher ancillary service costs on to certain fixed rate customers.
April 23, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC is scheduled to address at its public meeting today an order to open an investigation regarding FirstEnergy Solutions' pass-through clauses in its fixed-rate contracts.
April 9, 2014
The Utility Workers Union of America sought a declaratory order from the Pennsylvania PUC finding that FirstEnergy Solutions' fixed price contract language does not permit FES to increase its bills to residential customers because of higher ancillary service costs.
March 3, 2014
Integrys Energy Services performed as expected during the extreme cold in January, with negative impacts from load following electric contracts offset on the natural gas side, executives said during an earnings call last week.
February 26, 2014
FirstEnergy Corp. CEO Anthony Alexander told investors during yesterday's earnings call that given the volatility that has been introduced into the retail market, there's a question of, "whether or not a retail market for customers exists in the same format that we see it today."
February 24, 2014
Members of the Retail Energy Supply Association, "remain deeply concerned about the lack of transparency regarding January market conditions that precipitated record BOR [Balancing Operating Reserves] charges for one month," RESA said in a letter to the PJM board of managers.
January 3, 2014
Behavioral mitigation measures are "needed" to address market power issues in the PJM regulation market which would arise from NRG Energy's acquisition of Edison Mission Energy, Monitoring Analytics, PJM's independent market monitor, said in updated comments to FERC.
December 27, 2013
In seeking various changes to demand response rules and requirements at FERC, PJM reported that it yet again experienced "poor generator response" during a time when the grid was stressed.
December 13, 2013
ERCOT and the Independent Market Monitor have filed a report with the Public Utility Commission of Texas concerning Real-Time Co-optimization of Energy and Ancillary Services in the ERCOT Markets
November 27, 2013
Luminant Energy Company, LLC would pay $750,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas concerning the alleged failure of several Luminant units on February 2, 2011, to be on-line at an output level at least equal to each unit's low sustained limit (LSL) within 25…
November 25, 2013
An, "unexpected increase in PJM ancillary service and RPS compliance costs," negatively affected profitability at Washington Gas Energy Services, parent WGL Holdings recently said in reporting earnings.
November 20, 2013
ERCOT issued a market notice with implementation details for NPRR568, Real-Time Reserve Price Adder Based on Operating Reserve Demand Curve, which was approved by the ERCOT Board on November 19, 2013
November 19, 2013
Customized Energy Solutions said yesterday that it is the first market participant to offer demand response resources the ability to participate in the PJM Interconnection Synchronous Reserve (SR) Market as "flexible" resources, which are assigned on a five minute basis versus the traditional…
November 11, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have developed a list of proposed questions for stakeholder comment regarding real-time co-optimization of the ERCOT market (Project 41837).
October 4, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas will accept comments on an issue regarding implementation of an Operating Reserves Demand Curve raised by CPS Energy.
September 30, 2013
EDF Trading North America, LLC would pay $30,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve EDF's alleged failure to adhere to ERCOT Protocol §8.1.1.4.3(3)(b), related to non-spinning reserve service (NSRS) energy deployment criteria on March 9, 2012 and March…
September 25, 2013
Some electricity consumers could participate more actively in the Texas electric market in the future, following actions by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas Board of Directors at its Sept. 17 meeting, ERCOT said yesterday
