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July 7, 2011
The, "full benefits of competitive markets would not be allowed to materialize," if FERC were to grant a complaint from several generators against the New York ISO regarding the implementation of existing buyer-side mitigation rules in the ICAP market, the New York PSC said (EL11-42).
July 7, 2011
FERC has approved the merger application of Nstar and Northeast Utilities, finding that the merger will have no adverse effect on competition as a result of either horizontal or vertical market power (EC11-35).
July 4, 2011
Constellation Now Serving 900,000 Residential Customers with Close of MXenergy Acquisition
June 30, 2011
Nstar Files Adder for All Basic Service Rates due to Green Under-recovery
June 30, 2011
The Maine PUC has issued a Notice of Investigation to seek proposals from Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro-Electric to recover costs associated with several long term contracts, and dispose of the energy, capacity, and RECs from the contracts (Docket 2011-222).
June 29, 2011
EnerNOC has petitioned the Maryland PSC to amend its demand response capacity agreements with Potomac Edison, Pepco, and Delmarva Power, after failing to obtain the required capacity resources under the contracts for the 2011-12 delivery year at any of the three utilities.
June 28, 2011
The Pennsylvania Senate has confirmed Pamela Witmer, former President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Chemical Industry Council, to the PUC. Witmer will succeed Commissioner Tyrone Christy, whose last Public Meeting will be June 30.
June 28, 2011
ERCOT yesterday entered Energy Emergency Alert Level 1 for about an hour and a half, which prompted Oncor (independently of the ERCOT process) to initiate its first unscheduled curtailment order under the voluntary Commercial Load Management program.
June 28, 2011
The ISO New England Forward Capacity Auction for the 2014-2015 delivery year cleared at the floor price of $3.209 per kW-month.
June 27, 2011
Niagara Mohawk has filed a correction to its proposed electric capacity pricing mechanism for customers for whom the utility cannot apply an individualized capacity tag (10-E-0050).
June 24, 2011
More than half of New England customers are opposed to government intervention in resource adequacy, according to a recent survey conducted for the New England Energy Alliance.
June 23, 2011
Responding to the American Public Power Association's characterization of proposed changes to the Midwest ISO Module E resource adequacy construct, MISO emphasized several key differences in the MISO proposal versus the PJM Reliability Pricing Model.
June 23, 2011
Competitive retail suppliers in Ohio have "embraced" the removal of their responsibility for a customer's PJM capacity obligation, and assumption of this obligation by Duke Energy Ohio for all distribution customers in its service area, Keith Trent, President of Duke Energy's Commercial Businesses…
June 23, 2011
Texas, "must not in a reactionary mode rush to impose up-front administrative fixes to potential future threats, and thereby do exactly that [about] which we are fighting the EPA: and that is increasing the cost of doing business ... through [higher] electric charges," Luke Bellsnyder, executive…
June 21, 2011
FERC has denied a request from Sempra Generation to make capacity sales to its affiliate San Diego Gas & Electric Company pursuant to a competitive solicitation, as FERC found that the solicitation does not satisfy the Commission's concerns regarding the potential for affiliate abuse (ER11-3464).
June 21, 2011
Texas Competitive Power Advocates is seeking to impose a "backstop" capacity obligation on ERCOT loads.
June 20, 2011
Duke Energy Ohio announced this morning the filing of a new proposed electric security plan (ESP) under which it would assume the capacity obligation of all retail customers taking its distribution service.
June 17, 2011
Frustration of policymakers in Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut and other states with capacity prices, "stems from a basic flaw in RTO-run centralized markets -- they do not sufficiently support new generation investment but instead overcompensate existing generators," the American Public Power…
June 10, 2011
AEP announced a plan to comply with a series of regulations proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which includes the retirement of nearly 6,000 megawatts of coal-fueled power generation, including some in Ohio, and the refueling of an Ohio facility, "depending on regulatory treatment…
June 8, 2011
New Brunswick Power Generation Corporation has protested at FERC several transactions involving Emera, Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp., and First Wind Holdings, alleging that the transactions would, "adversely affect competition by creating affiliated entities possessing horizontal and vertical…
June 8, 2011
A draft of New Jersey's updated energy master plan calls for the state to, "gradually expose customers with lower energy demands to dynamic pricing."
June 7, 2011
Pennsylvania electric distribution companies (EDCs) should be required to offer a fixed-price default service option for customers with peak loads in excess of 500 kW, a group of industrials told the Pennsylvania PUC.
June 6, 2011
FERC has suspended PJM's tariff filing to revise the rules for measuring reductions from demand response resources which have cleared the capacity market, and ordered a technical conference on issues raised by protestors (ER11-3322).
June 6, 2011
A disproportionately high level of transaction costs may threaten the viability of virtual transactions in the ISO New England Day-Ahead Energy Market, the Internal Market Monitor said in an annual markets report.
June 6, 2011
No doubt emboldened by several recent FERC decisions, several New York capacity suppliers have filed a complaint at FERC alleging that the New York ISO's implementation of its buyer-side market power mitigation provisions is in violation of its tariff.
