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August 18, 2016
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has vacated the Massachusetts DPU's order allowing electric utilities to procure, via ratepayer-backed, long-term contracts, natural gas pipeline capacity to ease pipeline constraints and support power generators' access to gas supplies
August 10, 2016
With declining electric reserve margins expected by 2018 in the state and region, the Michigan Agency for Energy (MAE) and the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) asked the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), the regional transmission operator for most of the state, to conduct a…
August 5, 2016
AES Corp. disclosed in announcing earnings today that in the second quarter of 2016, DPL recorded a $235 million, or $0.25 per share, asset impairment charge largely related to the Killen generating station.
August 5, 2016
Low electric margins at WGL's retail energy marketing segment resulted in lower earnings at the segment for the quarter ending June 30, 2015 (third fiscal quarter).
August 4, 2016
Dynegy in announcing earnings disclosed that it has reached an agreement to sell its 50% stake in an Illinois power plant, and has also debuted a new brand
July 25, 2016
The Michigan PSC issued an analysis in which the PSC said that, while Michigan's near-term electric supply outlook for the summer of 2017 in the Lower Peninsula has improved slightly, the five-year review again shows, "the tightening of capacity supplies overall, in both the state and the Midwest"
July 25, 2016
FirstEnergy Solutions announced that it will sell or de-activate nearly 2,400 MW of coal-fired generation, citing challenging market conditions
July 21, 2016
The Midcontinent ISO has posted draft tariffs and business rules for its chosen solution to implement a capacity market construct specific to those states within the RTO that have retail choice
July 20, 2016
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 August 2016
July 18, 2016
"Calpine encourages the Commission [Texas PUC] to consider eliminating the current ERS [Emergency Response Service] program," Calpine said in comments in a project reviewing ERS (45927)
July 18, 2016
ERCOT informed market participants that, as part of ongoing litigation relating to the development of the Panda Sherman and Panda Temple plants, ERCOT has received discovery requests from plaintiffs seeking a variety of information relating to the development of generation in ERCOT.
July 14, 2016
Global Montello Group Corp. and Sprague Operating Resources LLC asked the Maine PUC to order Northern Utilities, Inc. (Unitil) to expeditiously provide information allowing suppliers to determine the total number of customers eligible to be Capacity Exempt under recent changes adopted by the PUC, as…
July 14, 2016
ERCOT has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to procure one or more resources as a Must-Run Alternative (MRA) to the existing Reliability-Must Run (RMR) Agreement with NRG Texas Power LLC's Greens Bayou Unit 5, which is required as ERCOT found that the plant, which had sought to suspend operations…
July 11, 2016
The Maine PUC adopted a series of changes to the retail natural gas choice program at Northern Utilities (Unitil)
June 29, 2016
FERC accepted without modification a filing by ISO New England to implement sloped zonal demand curves and a new sloped system-wide demand curve for use in ISO-NE’s Forward Capacity Market
June 20, 2016
TransCanada Power Marketing Ltd. asked the Massachusetts DPU to introduce zonal default service pricing for residential and small C&I customers at Nstar and National Grid, starting with the next basic service price period (November 2016 and January 2017, respectively), in order to address…
June 17, 2016
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 2016
June 17, 2016
As part of its never-ending march to increase compensation to capacity owners, FERC has mandated an increase in the frequency in which jurisdictional RTOs enter shortage pricing conditions
June 13, 2016
The Organization of MISO States (OMS) and MISO released the results of their annual resource adequacy survey, and the groups said that results indicate that the MISO region has adequate capacity for 2017 with potential shortages in 2018 and beyond.
June 13, 2016
"[T]he competitive electricity markets -- particularly the organized wholesale markets -- continue to underachieve," when it comes to addressing the changing electricity industry, U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed…
June 9, 2016
FERC Staff have directed that Atlas Power, the joint venture between Dynegy and Energy Capital Partners, provide additional information concerning its application to acquire various plants from GDF SUEZ Energy North America
June 6, 2016
ERCOT notified market participants that on June 2, 2016, it executed a Standard Form Reliability Must-Run Agreement with NRG Texas Power LLC.
May 26, 2016
The Michigan Senate Energy and Technology Committee in a 6-1 vote reported favorably SB 437, which would generally impose capacity requirements on retail suppliers
May 26, 2016
Dynegy today announced plans to file legislation in the Illinois General Assembly which would move Ameren from the Midcontinent ISO to the PJM market, in order to provide more compensation to downstate generation capacity, such as Dynegy's power plants
May 25, 2016
Despite declines versus the near-record prices seen in the PJM 2018-19 Base Residual Auction, the 2019-20 Base Residual Auction will still burden load with capacity prices at or in excess of $100/MW-day
