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December 12, 2011
Interstate Gas Supply has asked the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to cap the amount of discounted capacity available to governmental aggregations which would otherwise be made available under a pending non-unanimous settlement regarding AEP Ohio's electric security plan.
December 9, 2011
Usource Enters New Marketing Partnerships
December 9, 2011
PUCT Commissioner Kenneth Anderson yesterday wished to make "crystal clear" to the resource community that a capacity market, "is not on the table" at this time, as the Commission examines various measures to assure resource adequacy in ERCOT.
December 6, 2011
PUCT Commissioner Kenneth Anderson express continued skepticism of capacity markets during a conference call with UBS Investment Research this afternoon.
December 6, 2011
Additional mitigation of the Exelon-Constellation merger remains necessary beyond the initially offered divestitures, Maryland PSC Staff said in a post-hearing brief, while Exelon-Constellation simultaneously announced a commitment to build new generation in an amount which Staff suggested could…
December 5, 2011
New York PSC Staff have recommended lowering the current mandatory hourly pricing cutoff for default service customers at Orange & Rockland, and also recommended changes in the pricing of capacity (11-E-0408).
December 2, 2011
PJM has filed several proposed tariff changes with FERC, the principal design of which are to increase capacity prices in the Reliability Pricing Model.
December 1, 2011
ERCOT released its December capacity, demand and reserves report indicating that capacity is expected to fall below the target reserve margin beginning next summer.
December 1, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC will continue to work on standardizing natural gas distribution companies' (NGDC) supplier coordination tariffs, but will do so in a new rulemaking as the current rulemaking was approaching its automatic withdrawal date (L-2009-2069117).
November 18, 2011
FERC denied rehearing on all but several minor points regarding its prior decision to inflate capacity prices in PJM by $3 billion by accepting a revised Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR), which, among other things, removed the exemption from the MOPR for capacity sellers who were not net short on…
November 18, 2011
In a final rule, FERC has dropped its earlier proposal to require that, if more than one affiliate of the same entity participates in an interstate natural gas pipeline open season, then none of those affiliates may release any capacity obtained in that open season pursuant to a pro rata allocation…
November 15, 2011
PJM's proposal to limit the allocation of Price Responsive Demand credits to the load-serving entity which serves the load engaging in Price Responsive Demand is not anti-competitive or unjust and unreasonable, the Retail Energy Supply Association said in an answer at FERC (ER11-4628).
November 8, 2011
The New York ISO has asked FERC for more time to develop additional market power mitigation measures that NYISO believes are required as part of implementing new local capacity zones, as directed by a recent FERC order.
November 2, 2011
Green Mountain Energy Company has petitioned FERC for a limited, one-time waiver of a New York ISO tariff provision requiring penalties for the withholding of capacity, after Green Mountain said that it, "inadvertently withheld a small amount of capacity from the NYISO installed capacity ('ICAP')…
November 2, 2011
Continuing the pace seen in the second quarter of 2011, direct retail sales by FirstEnergy Solutions in the third quarter of 2011 increased by two-thirds versus the year-ago quarter, FirstEnergy Corp. disclosed yesterday in reporting earnings.
November 1, 2011
Pepco and Delmarva Power have sought rehearing of the Maryland's PSC order issuing an RFP for 1,500 MW of new capacity, arguing that the Commission must address several threshold issues, including cost recovery, prior to issuing an RFP.
October 31, 2011
PUCT Staff have posted in Project 39870 an 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).
October 31, 2011
In the latest and most brash example yet of the desire of competitive generation owners to restrict customer choice, Calpine COO Thad Hill said during an earnings call that retail choice in Texas puts negative pressure on new build in ERCOT, and lamented that there is no "serious dialogue" on this…
October 27, 2011
Exelon's Generation unit, which includes the results from its competitive retail sales operations, posted higher adjusted earnings of $522 million for the third quarter, up from $499 million a year ago.
October 27, 2011
During an earnings call yesterday, Exelon CEO John Rowe continued a victory lap on recent, yet unapproved, settlements at Duke Energy Ohio and AEP Ohio that would require both utilities to begin procuring 100% of capacity for customers through the Reliability Pricing Model in 2015.
October 25, 2011
EPSA yesterday released a set of policy principles for organized wholesale power markets .
October 25, 2011
A settlement among most parties to establish Duke Energy Ohio's procurement and pricing of the Standard Service Offer (SSO) for the period January 1, 2012 through May 31, 2015 forces certain retail suppliers to subsidize their competitors, by jettisoning an innovative proposal to remove capacity…
October 21, 2011
FERC yesterday adopted as final new rules for the compensation of regulation service in the jurisdictional RTOs, retaining a capacity payment and adding a performance-based payment (RM11-7).
October 21, 2011
The California PUC opened Rulemaking 11-10-023 to establish local resource adequacy (RA) procurement obligations, and make other refinements to the RA program, for the 2013 compliance year.
October 19, 2011
In response to comments filed at the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Illinois Power Agency has modified its proposed default service plan, including the provisions related to long-term capacity, RECs, and clean coal contracting.
