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March 20, 2013
The Massachusetts DPU has declined to order the electric distribution utilities to enter long-term contracts at this time, despite finding a need for new capacity in the NEMA/Boston zone in the next 10 years absent the construction of Footprint Power's 674 MW generating plant.
March 14, 2013
A Dynegy subsidiary has entered into an agreement to acquire Ameren Energy Resources (AER) and its subsidiaries Ameren Energy Generating Company (Genco), Ameren Energy Resources Generating Company (AERG), and retail supplier Ameren Energy Marketing Company (AEM).
March 7, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and GDF SUEZ Energy North America, Inc. have filed a settlement for approval of a new Voluntary Mitigation Plan (VMP).
March 6, 2013
Energy prices in the Residential and Small Commercial SOS portfolio at Delmarva Power in Delaware will decline as a result of the 2012-13 auction for SOS supply, while prices for medium and large C&I customers will increase, but largely due to capacity, according to the auction report from The…
March 5, 2013
PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. has, "refused to discharge its duties" to proactively prevent or reactively remedy anti-competitive conduct arising due to concentration of market power through incumbency, affiliation or otherwise, Industrial Energy Users-Ohio charged in comments filed in Ohio's retail…
March 4, 2013
The amount of electricity available to serve demand in ERCOT will be tight again this summer, according to an analysis released by ERCOT
February 25, 2013
Retail suppliers have raised concerns with the proposed method of cost recovery for any generation procured to replace the loss of the Indian Point capacity, if the New York nuclear plant is retired.
February 14, 2013
A final decision from the California PUC allows Southern California Edison to procure over 2,000 MW of electric capacity to meet local capacity requirements, with the procurement eligible for cost allocation mechanism (CAM) treatment. The PUC also declined to make any changes in the CAM, such as…
February 13, 2013
FERC largely accepted a compliance filing from ISO New England concerning implementation of offer floors in the Forward Capacity Market, and denied a related complaint from state regulators concerning the offer floors.
February 13, 2013
Introducing a capacity market into ERCOT would subject customers to an unavoidable "tax," an industry panelist said yesterday at an Infocast conference.
February 13, 2013
Two reports from think tanks on opposite ends of the political spectrum have both reached the inescapable conclusion that a capacity market in ERCOT would raise customer rates, without addressing any specific causes of the current resource adequacy concerns.
February 13, 2013
An updated analysis of ERCOT resource adequacy from Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson shows that ERCOT is not projected to fall below the 13.75% reserve margin until after 2018.
February 11, 2013
FERC has set for hearing and settlement judge procedures, suspending for the maximum five-month period, a proposed formula rate to establish the capacity rate charged to competitive service providers at Appalachian Power Company (AEP) in Virginia.
February 7, 2013
The NEMA/Boston zone diverged to a higher capacity price than the rest of ISO New England in the Forward Capacity Auction for the 2016/17 delivery year.
February 6, 2013
A "settlement" among certain stakeholders, notably PJM and capacity owners, to revise the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) in PJM's capacity market, such that the MOPR applies to a larger set of capacity offers, is "deficient," a delegated FERC order found yesterday.
February 1, 2013
FERC accepted without modification a contented settlement to establish new Cost of New Entry (CONE) values for the PJM capacity market, to take effect for the May 2013 base residual auction.
January 31, 2013
House Republicans in Michigan have included a "review" of the current 10% electric choice cap as a legislative priority.
January 29, 2013
Constellation yesterday formally launched its Peak Response program, which manages customers' future capacity and transmission capacity values by lowering electricity consumption during the hours of peak demand.
January 29, 2013
Tenaska and the Brownsville Public Utilities Board (BPUB) announced Monday that they have entered into a development and purchase agreement for construction of a proposed 800-megawatt (MW) natural gas-fueled electric generating station in Brownsville, Texas.
January 18, 2013
FERC Issues Policy Statement on Allocation of Merchant Transmission Capacity
January 18, 2013
The Maine PUC has set the Standard Offer energy prices for large non-residential customers at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro-Electric for the month of February.
January 13, 2013
Apparently in the vein of never letting a crisis go to waste, a federally-sanctioned, non-representative, quasi-government agency has inserted itself into the ERCOT resource adequacy debate, requesting, since it has no authority to demand, that ERCOT provide it with certain information, but with the…
January 8, 2013
Williams Partners L.P. announced that its Transco pipeline has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to provide another natural gas delivery point from its Transco pipeline to New York City.
January 8, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed an updated estimate of the installed generating capacity in ERCOT.
January 4, 2013
FERC Approves Cleveland Locational Deliverability Area
