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October 18, 2011
EnergyConnect, Inc., and EnerNOC, Inc., have asked FERC to make retail suppliers and other load serving entities pay for capacity not needed due to Price Responsive Demand (PRD) in PJM, by requiring PJM to provide PRD capacity credits to the PRD providers, rather than the LSEs who are obligated to…
October 17, 2011
The Midwest ISO filed an answer at FERC attempting to justify its capacity cost allocation method for states with retail choice, but its arguments were strained or simply puzzling.
October 14, 2011
The New York PSC will allow tariff revisions from National Fuel Gas Distribution regarding ESCO storage inventory balance requirements to go into effect without modification (Case 11-G-0272).
October 13, 2011
Although PUCT Chairman Donna Nelson had not been entertaining adoption of a capacity market in ERCOT, despite the constant drumbeat from some asset owners for such a design, Nelson said that recent comments from a major PJM generation owner has put the nail in the coffin for her appetite for a…
October 13, 2011
NRG Energy has asked the Maryland PSC to remove the geographic limitation in the PSC's current RFP for 1,500 MW of new gas-fired capacity.
October 12, 2011
Constellation Energy and Exelon have agreed, under a settlement with the PJM independent market monitor, to not sell three units to be divested as part of their planned merger to competitors previously identified as owning three percent or more of the installed capacity in the overall PJM market, in…
October 11, 2011
Incumbent generators in New Jersey, "don't want competition," New Jersey BPU President Lee Solomon said in opening a National Energy Marketers Association conference on the New Jersey market this morning.
October 10, 2011
Chain Lakes Power to Relinquish REP Certificate
October 10, 2011
Pepco and Delmarva Power have informed the Maryland PSC that they may petition for reconsideration of PSC's decision to issue an RFP for up to 1,500 MW of new generation under long-term contracts, stating that the PSC should consider utility-built generation to meet any identified capacity needs.
October 6, 2011
AEP Ohio has filed a revised plan to implement the proposed RPM set-aside, providing greater details and granularity after being informed by a collaborative with suppliers and other parties (11-346-EL-SSO et. al.).
October 4, 2011
Parties expecting PJM to file tariff language yesterday for a New Entry Price Adjustment in the Reliability Pricing Model received only a status report, as PJM said it requires more time to address NEPA issues and build consensus (ER11-2875).
October 4, 2011
Ameren Energy Resources Company announced this morning that its Meredosia and Hutsonville merchant generation plants will cease operating by the end of 2011.
October 4, 2011
Combined cycle gas turbine generation built pursuant to a Maryland RFP would be expected to clear the Reliability Pricing Model auction even under the Minimum Offer Price Rule, two analysts at UBS Securities said in a note to clients.
October 3, 2011
Morgan Stanley will pay $4.8 million for allegedly violating the antitrust laws by entering into an agreement with KeySpan Corporation that allegedly restrained competition in the New York City electricity capacity market, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.
September 30, 2011
The issuance of an RFP for new generation, "is in the best interest of Maryland ratepayers and may promote the long-term electric reliability of the State," the Maryland PSC concluded yesterday in an order issuing an RFP for up to 1,500 MW (Case 9214).
September 29, 2011
Should the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio accept a non-unanimous stipulation regarding AEP Ohio's electric security plan, FirstEnergy Solutions sought, at a minimum, to require AEP to provide RPM-priced capacity to governmental aggregation loads, and for such loads to be excluded from the…
September 29, 2011
The Illinois Power Agency has submitted its proposed default service procurement plan for the period June 2012 through May 2017 which retains the general parameters of past plans for energy requirements, but adds a carve-out for distributed solar and potentially clean coal (ICC Docket 11-0660).
September 26, 2011
PJM has submitted to FERC a proposal to allow load serving entities, as well as other providers, to commit Price Responsive Demand (PRD) to PJM, with such commitments reducing the capacity obligation sourced through the Reliability Pricing Model auction.
September 22, 2011
"The short term capacity market doesn't work," Keith Trent, Group Executive and President of Commercial Businesses for Duke Energy, observed during the Ohio Governor's 21st Century Energy & Economic Summit yesterday.
September 19, 2011
Maryland PSC Staff requested that the PSC issue a show cause order to the four curtailment service providers selected under the "Gap RFP," as well as the utility counterparties, to ensure that double counting is not occurring and to, "address why all the Gap RFP Agreements should not be voided."
September 16, 2011
The treatment of load forecasting under the Midwest ISO's proposed revisions to its capacity mechanism, "places non-EDC LSEs in a competitively disadvantageous position that makes the tariff provisions unjust, unreasonable and unduly discriminatory," the Retail Energy Supply Association said in a…
September 14, 2011
The non-unanimous, stipulated electric security plan (ESP) at AEP Ohio would result in generation rates $1.67/MWh lower than the results expected under a Market Rate Offer, AEP Ohio said yesterday in testimony supporting the stipulation.
September 12, 2011
ERCOT has received a Notification of Suspension of Operations for Midlothian Energy LP's Midlothian CT5 unit (MDANP_CT5), a gas-fired unit. In ERCOT's most recent CDR report, Midlothian CT5's capacity is listed as 225 MW summer, 247 MW winter.
September 12, 2011
Luminant announced this morning that it will idle several plants due to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.
September 12, 2011
In a pleading likely to fall on deaf ears at FERC (ER11-4081), the Illinois Commerce Commission expressed, "significant doubts that a centralized capacity market, as proposed by [the Midwest ISO], is necessary for the Midwest."
