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September 29, 2014
A segment of Ohio industrial customers has voiced support for Duke Energy Ohio's proposed Price Stabilization Rider, while at the same time proposing that very large customers (and only those customers) be permitted to make an election to avoid the rider.
September 23, 2014
A group consisting of retail suppliers, end users, and state regulators have raised concerns that PJM is ignoring the costs and other issues associated with the transition to a modified capacity market that includes PJM's new capacity performance product.
September 22, 2014
Load in PJM is paying $433 million in additional costs due to PJM's load forecast used in the capacity market undercounting the impact of energy efficiency, a report by Brattle prepared for the Sustainable FERC Project concludes.
September 18, 2014
The New York PSC and FERC will hold a joint technical conference to address New York markets and infrastructure on November 5.
September 18, 2014
The U.S. Court of Appeal of the D.C. circuit has denied en banc rehearing of its earlier order striking down FERC Order 745, FERC's order which provided that demand response shall be paid full LMP.
September 17, 2014
The multi-step transaction that would essentially see PPL Energy Supply, LLC and RJS Power Holdings LLC combine to form Talen Energy, "would have an anticompetitive impact on several local energy markets," even with the companies' proposed mitigation measures, the PJM Independent Market Monitor said…
September 17, 2014
By taking no action on the filing of the results from ISO New England's capacity auction for the 2017-18 delivery period by September 15, FERC allowed ISO-NE's tariff filing containing the results of the auction to become effective by operation of law.
September 16, 2014
Citing reliability concerns, the Massachusetts natural gas LDCs have requested authorization to include up to 30 percent of the Winter 2014/15 design day and design winter gas-supply requirements of capacity-exempt transportation customers in the planning and procurement process for Default Service…
September 4, 2014
Proposed changes just to the PJM variable resource requirement (VRR) curve would cost over $4 billion over three years, a coalition of state regulators, consumer advocates, and industrial customers said in a letter to PJM's Board of Managers.
August 22, 2014
Dynegy Inc. announced that it will acquire the Duke Energy Retail business as well as certain Midwest generation assets from Duke Energy totaling 6,100 MW.
August 4, 2014
Events of last winter have made obvious what critics of capacity markets have long-stated, and have forced PJM, in a draft problem statement published Friday, to concede that, "the current set of performance incentives and penalties for Capacity Resources does not sufficiently address all that is…
July 28, 2014
AEP updated investors during its Friday earnings call on its approach to its unregulated generation business.
July 17, 2014
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 2014.
July 14, 2014
The AES Corporation announced today that it has decided to retain DPL Inc.'s 3,453 MW of generating assets.
July 9, 2014
Maryland is the latest state to seek confidential offer data from the recent 2017/18 PJM Base Residual Auction
June 30, 2014
FERC on Friday issued a letter order to ISO New England calling ISO-NE's filing of the capacity auction results for 2017-18, "deficient," and directed the ISO to submit more information, with a particular emphasis on mitigation and actions taken to prevent manipulation.
June 25, 2014
The allegations from two "speculators" in a lawsuit against GDF SUEZ Energy North America, "are an attempt to have this Court reject the design of the ERCOT wholesale power market in Texas and impose an obligation on ERCOT participants under the CEA [Commodity Exchange Act] that has never before…
June 23, 2014
The Public Utility Commission of Texas denied a petition to eliminate or otherwise modify the small-fish-swim-free exemption under Subst. R. §25.504(c).
June 10, 2014
Granting El Paso Electric Company a certificate of convenience and necessity (CCN) for two new, gas-fired, combustion turbine generation units would have no effect on retail competition in EPE's service area, a Texas ALJ would rule in a proposal for decision.
June 6, 2014
PJM has received a request for confidential information from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio regarding the 2017/2018 Reliability Pricing Model BRA.
June 4, 2014
PJM has received a request for confidential information from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities: specifically, offer data from the latest RPM Base Residual Auction.
June 3, 2014
DTE Electric (Detroit Edison) issued a Request for Proposal to solicit bids for the company to acquire an operational natural gas simple and/or combined cycle generating plant.
June 2, 2014
FERC approved, without modification, ISO New England's proposal to introduce a sloped demand curve into its forward capacity market, effective for auction for the 2018-19 delivery year.
June 2, 2014
ISO New England's current capacity market design, "fails to provide adequate incentives for resource performance, thereby threatening reliable operation of the system and forcing consumers to pay for capacity without receiving commensurate reliability benefits," FERC conceded in an order Friday.
May 28, 2014
The Retail Energy Supply Association has slammed a petition from Duke Energy to recover from PJM load about $10 million in unrecovered costs associated with procuring fuel for potential dispatch during January's cold weather.
