April 29, 2013
The University of Delaware and NRG Energy announced a milestone for their eV2g project: becoming an official resource of PJM Interconnection and proving for the first time that electric vehicle-to-grid technology can sell electricity from electric vehicles (EVs) to the power grid.
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April 22, 2013
Granting a complaint from demand response providers, FERC rejected, on procedural grounds, new policies instituted by PJM applicable to demand response offers in the capacity market.
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April 16, 2013
A filing by Ohio Power Company at FERC is meant to preserve a favorable revenue stream for AEP to the extent an Ohio court overturns a decision by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Industrial Energy Users-Ohio charged in a FERC filing.
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April 4, 2013
As Texas considers resource adequacy, and specifically demand response, it should view skeptically claims, especially from capacity owners, that the fastest and most effective way to develop demand response resources is to introduce a centralized capacity market.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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February 4, 2013
FERC approved a stipulation under which Oceanside Power, LLC will pay a civil penalty of $51,000 and disgorge $29,000 to resolve an investigation by FERC's Office of Enforcement regarding whether Oceanside violated the Commission's Anti-Manipulation Rule, 18 C.F.R. § 1c.2.
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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.
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January 17, 2013
PJM Interconnection and the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) have successfully begun jointly managing transmission limits that occur near the "seams" between their regions.
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January 17, 2013
Linden VFT, LLC has filed a complaint at FERC seeking an order directing Brookfield Energy Marketing, LP and Cargill Power Markets, LLC to pay Linden VFT for certain PJM costs that Linden argues are allowed to be passed-through to the marketers under certain Transmission Scheduling Rights Purchase…
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January 4, 2013
FERC Approves Cleveland Locational Deliverability Area
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January 2, 2013
North America Power Partners LLC has requested that FERC extend the deadline for it to pay a previously ordered disgorgement and civil penalty, citing a decrease in revenue, which has impacted its ability to meet the deadlines.
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December 19, 2012
An initial decision from a FERC ALJ would deny a proposal from the Midwest ISO and International Transmission Company (Joint Applicants) to recover from load in PJM and the New York ISO certain costs associated with Phase Angle Regulating transformers (PARs) located at Bunce Creek on the…
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December 14, 2012
A report from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and the American Public Power Association (APPA) found, "a possible $12 billion excess payment from consumers to generating companies that do not face genuine market competition" for 2011 as a result of wholesale electric restructuring, as…
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December 10, 2012
PJM has submitted a filing at FERC to reflect the permanent termination of Bridge Energy Traders and JD Renewable Energy, L.L.C. as PJM members due to defaults.
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December 10, 2012
Revisions to the price floor in PJM's Reliability Pricing Model capacity market filed with FERC on Friday (see prior story) , "restrict[] the freedom with which prices are established by a competitive market," the Maryland PSC said in a statement.
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November 26, 2012
PJM has filed a settlement at FERC to revise the Cost of New Entry (CONE) in the capacity market, with the revisions higher than an earlier PJM proposal from December 2011, and also generally higher than current values.
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November 15, 2012
Under a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Exelon has agreed to make a civil payment of $400,000 to the United States Treasury to resolve allegations that Exelon violated a prior court order, which adopted conditions on its merger with Constellation, due to "inadvertent" errors which…
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November 12, 2012
PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. has submitted to FERC a filing reflecting the permanent termination of City Power Marketing, L.L.C. as a PJM Member in accordance with Sections 15.1.6(c) and 4.1(c) of the Operating Agreement.
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November 7, 2012
FERC has again dismissed concerns raised by the Pennsylvania PUC regarding shortage pricing in PJM, in denying a request for rehearing of an earlier FERC order.
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November 6, 2012
PJM has filed at FERC to create a new Cleveland Locational Deliverability Area (LDA) as part of the capacity obligations required to be met by load serving entities through the capacity market.
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November 2, 2012
American Electric Power has submitted filings to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) seeking approval to fully separate its Ohio generating assets from its Ohio distribution and transmission operations following an Oct. 17 decision from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio in the…
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October 18, 2012
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has directed AEP Ohio to make any necessary adjustments to retail supplier billings, which occurred during an "interim" period of capacity pricing, in order to reflect a clarification from PUCO regarding the capacity rate applied to certain customers during…
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October 17, 2012
The boards of both PJM Interconnection and the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) today agreed to a long-term strategy to optimize the flow of electricity across their common border and reduce threats to reliability.
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