June 28, 2018
In two memos in advance of today's open meeting, Texas PUC Chairman DeAnn Walker recommended that a rulemaking be opened to address how a generator's capacity is counted for purposes of compliance with various market share thresholds and limitations under PURA
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June 27, 2018
Philadelphia Gas Works has agreed to examine in next year's Gas Costs Rates (GCR) proceeding the charges applicable to Choice suppliers for released capacity, after the Office of Consumer Advocate recommended changes to the charge.
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June 25, 2018
The California PUC adopted an order directing the implementation of multi-year Resource Adequacy (RA) requirements starting in 2020, though specifics will be addressed in a further track of the proceeding
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June 19, 2018
The Maine PUC has set the Standard Offer rates for the large non-residential classes at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro-Electric for the month of July 2018.
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May 29, 2018
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed an updated estimate of installed generation capacity in ERCOT.
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May 25, 2018
FirstEnergy Solutions (FES) said that none of its three nuclear plants, with combined capacity of 4,048 megawatts, received a commitment in the PJM 2021/22 Base Residual Auction
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May 25, 2018
Calpine Corporation cleared a total of 5,152 MW in PJM’s 2021/2022 base residual auction.
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May 24, 2018
Vistra Energy Corp. has reported its results from the PJM capacity auction for planning year 2021/2022.
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May 24, 2018
PJM's base residual auction for the 2021-22 delivery year saw Rest-of-RTO capacity prices nearly double versus 2020-2021, with the BGE, PSEG, and ATSI zones among those separating
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May 23, 2018
Court Says "Most Compelling" Reason For Restructuring Was To "Reduce Costs" Court Says PUC Erred In Elevating "Functional Separation" Of Generation Services From T&D
Court Ruling Implicates Default Service Procurement and Utility Long-Term Contracting, As Well As Future Utility Product Offerings
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May 17, 2018
The Maine PUC has set the Standard Offer rates for the large non-residential classes at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro-Electric for the month of June 2018.
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May 9, 2018
FERC denied proposed tariff filings from PJM to change the manner in which excess capacity is released in the incremental auction, a change which had been opposed by Direct Energy as increasing costs to LSEs.
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April 30, 2018
ERCOT's May 2018 Capacity, Demand and Reserves (CDR) report shows reserve margins increasing gradually starting in 2020
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April 20, 2018
The Illinois Power Agency has posted winning prices from the recent capacity procurement event for Ameren Illinois Company (AIC) default service customers
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April 13, 2018
FERC has rejected the California ISO's proposed changes to its risk of retirement capacity procurement mechanism (CPM).
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April 13, 2018
The Midcontinent ISO's capacity auction for the 2018-19 planning year resulted in a clearing price of $10 per MW-day for all zones except Zone 1 (DPC, GRE, MDU, MP, NSP, OTP, SMP)
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March 29, 2018
During today's open meeting, the Texas PUC approved the merger of Vistra and Dynegy, and, in doing so, found that the combined firm, without any divestitures, will not exceed the 20% market share limit.
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March 29, 2018
Texas PUC Commissioner Arthur C. D'Andrea in a memo in advance of today's open meeting said that he would exclude from the calculation of the market share of Vistra Energy, as a result of its proposed merger with Dynegy, import capacity over the DC ties
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March 22, 2018
The New York PSC has approved revisions to the gas tariff schedule, P.S.C. No. 9 - Gas, of Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (the Company) in which ConEd is modifying its Daily Delivery Service (DDS) Program to implement a mandatory 12-month pilot program for the release of certain…
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March 19, 2018
The Maine PUC has set the Standard Offer rates for the large non-residential classes at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro-Electric for the month of April 2018.
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March 19, 2018
FERC has set a date (April 24) and has issued questions for stakeholder comment in advance of a previously announced technical conference to explore issues raised in two complaints against PJM's transition to a 100% "capacity performance" product in its capacity market, and the methodology by which…
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March 12, 2018
A Texas ALJ has issued a proposed order concerning Vistra Energy's application to acquire Dynegy that would require the sale of at least one of two Luminant power plants for the transaction to be approved
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March 8, 2018
The Texas PUC today directed ERCOT to remove Reliability Unit Commitment (RUC) capacity from the online reserves used to calculate the Operating Reserve Demand Curve (ORDC) price adder for this summer
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March 1, 2018
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is predicting record-breaking peak usage this summer driven by the strong Texas economy.
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February 28, 2018
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) will be hosting a Natural Gas Technical Conference on Thursday, March 29, 2018, intended for Natural Gas Suppliers (NGSs) and Natural Gas Distribution Companies (NGDCs) and any parties interested in the proceedings at Docket Nos. L-2016-2577413…
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