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February 6, 2012
AEP Ohio will not be required to immediately revise its detailed implementation plan (DIP) regarding the allocation of discounted capacity to comply with a recent clarification from PUCO, an Ohio attorney examiner held Friday.
January 31, 2012
FERC accepted several changes to the Reliability Pricing Model tariff which will act to raise capacity prices, but ordered hearing and settlement procedures regarding the Cost of New Entry (CONE).
January 26, 2012
FirstEnergy Corp. announced this morning that its generation subsidiaries will retire six older coal-fired power plants located in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland by September 1, 2012.
January 26, 2012
AEP Ohio said that it would not file a new version of the Detailed Implementation Plan concerning the allocation of discounted capacity to customers absent further direction from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, or the case's attorney examiners, notwithstanding PUCO's recent entry requiring…
January 25, 2012
The Texas Coalition for Affordable Power has released an updated version of its report of electric deregulation in Texas.
January 24, 2012
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has clarified its order concerning the discounted capacity set asides available for shopping customers at AEP Ohio, which will expand the amount of load able to be served with RPM-priced capacity versus how AEP Ohio proposed to implement PUCO's prior order.
January 20, 2012
A settlement among Exelon, Constellation, and Gov. Martin O'Malley, which includes requirements for Exelon to build up to 300 MW of new in-state generation (see 12/12) , "adequately address all of the market power concerns," raised in prior PSC Staff testimony, Staff said in supplemental testimony…
January 20, 2012
FERC has granted rehearing on a single issue of its April order regarding ISO New England's Forward Capacity Auction (FCA), which largely addressed buyer-side market power, to determine how to treat Out of Market (OOM) resources carried forward under one set of rules under a new and different set of…
January 19, 2012
The Midwest ISO has submitted tariff revisions to FERC to lower the credit requirements in the monthly Voluntary Capacity Auction (VCA) after determining that the current credit requirements are "excessive" based on historical pricing.
January 18, 2012
A California PUC comment (draft) resolution would direct Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric to negotiate to enter into a contract with Calpine's Sutter Energy Center to end no later than December 31, 2012, and would adopt a nonbypassable charge to pay…
January 12, 2012
The Pennsylvania PUC this morning voted to issue for comment a Tentative Order that would provide for additional data sharing between electric distribution companies (EDCs) and electric generation suppliers (EGSs).
January 5, 2012
ConocoPhillips Company has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $545,000 and to disgorge $3,174,900 plus interest to resolve FERC Enforcement Staff's allegations that ConocoPhillips violated various posting and bidding requirements and shipper-must-have-title requirements.
January 5, 2012
EnerNOC, Inc., Maryland PSC Staff, the Office of People's Counsel, and three affected utilities have filed a settlement regarding EnerNOC's failure to attain demand response in the amount required under the Gap RFP contracts (Case 9149).
January 4, 2012
PUCT Staff have posted in Project 39870 an updated estimate of the installed generating capacity in ERCOT, including the estimated total used for the "small fish swim free" market power exemption under P.U.C Subst. R. 25.504(c).
January 4, 2012
FirstEnergy Solutions has petitioned the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to maintain then-current (as of the December 30, 2011 date of FES' motion) rates at AEP Ohio, or alternatively maintain the then-current cost of capacity, until such time as AEP Ohio has accepted the partial stipulation, as…
December 28, 2011
Central Hudson Gas & Electric has submitted tariff amendments to the New York PSC to make Winter Bundled Sales (WBS) Service mandatory for retail gas suppliers serving Service Classification Nos. 6, 12 & 13 customers.
December 23, 2011
Recent changes to the Reliability Pricing Model capacity mechanism filed by PJM are meant to inflate capacity prices, the Maryland PSC said in a protest at FERC.
December 23, 2011
A final Illinois order allows the Illinois Power Agency (IPA) to procure, for default service customers at Ameren Illinois, capacity for the periods 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 during the solicitation held in early 2012 (11-0660).
December 20, 2011
New Jersey should consider the possibility of creating a state power authority if ratepayer-backed long-term capacity contracts fail to clear the May 2012 and May 2013 Reliability Pricing Model auctions, New Jersey BPU Staff has recommended to the Board.
December 16, 2011
It would be "premature" to undertake a fundamental re-design of the Midwest ISO resource adequacy plan at this time, FERC said in denying rehearing on prior orders regarding the current "voluntary" monthly capacity auction in MISO (ER08-394).
December 15, 2011
Exelon and Constellation Energy have reached a settlement with Gov. Martin O'Malley and the Maryland Energy Administration under which MEA is now supporting the applicants' merger before the PSC, and under which Exelon commits to build up to 300 MW of new in-state generation.
December 15, 2011
FERC has subjected PJM's price responsive demand (PRD) filing to the outcome of a technical conference and further Commission order (ER11-4628).
December 14, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved a modified stipulation establishing the AEP Ohio companies' electric security plan governing default service for the period 2012 through May 31, 2016, which revises the amount of "discounted" capacity made available to competitive retail suppliers (11…
December 14, 2011
A proposed Illinois order would allow the Illinois Power Agency (IPA) to procure, for default service customers at Ameren Illinois, capacity for the periods 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 during the solicitation held in early 2012 (11-0660).
December 12, 2011
Atmos Energy Corporation will pay a civil penalty of $6.4 million under a consent agreement approved by FERC addressing various flipping and shipper-must-have-title violations by subsidiaries Atmos Energy Marketing, Inc. (AEM) and Trans Louisiana Gas Pipeline, Inc. (Trans La).
