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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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October 10, 2011
Chain Lakes Power to Relinquish REP Certificate
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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.).
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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).
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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.
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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).
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September 27, 2011
StarTex Ranked in Houston Business Journal Fast 100
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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.
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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.
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September 19, 2011
Late Friday, Monitoring Analytics, LLC, filed with FERC as well as the Maryland PSC an updated market power analysis regarding the proposed merger of Constellation Energy and Exelon, but which does not materially alter the PJM independent market monitor's conclusions regarding the merger.
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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.
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September 8, 2011
The contemplated corporate separation of AEP Ohio's existing ratebased generation from its Ohio distribution companies opens up a whole new view for the company going forward, executives said during an investor call yesterday.
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September 6, 2011
AEP Ohio submitted testimony at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio supporting its request to raise the capacity charges imposed on competitive retail suppliers under its Fixed Resource Requirement by up to 160% (10-2929-EL-UNC).
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August 30, 2011
The Compete Coalition yesterday claimed in a blog posting that customers of competitive retail suppliers would be "doublecharged" under Duke Energy Ohio's proposed electric security plan. However, that is not Matters' understanding of the Duke Energy Ohio proposal.
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August 22, 2011
In the August 29 edition of the Weekly Standard, published in advance online , author Michael Warren faults New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's energy policy as being "not so conservative," due to the Long-Term Capacity Pilot Program (LCAPP). However, the Weekly Standard either fails to recognize, or…
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August 18, 2011
Current Minimum Offer Price Rules (MOPR) in PJM's capacity market, "may undermine bilateral long-term contracting, self supply, and force some entities [to] switch to FRR [Fixed Resource Requirement] inefficiently," the Brattle Group said in an updated study on the Reliability Pricing Model .
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August 12, 2011
PUCO Sets Hearing on Capacity Charges for Retail Suppliers at AEP Ohio
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July 25, 2011
The proposal from Constellation Energy and Exelon to divest three generating plants in PJM as part of their proposed merger would not eliminate the competitive issues of the merger, PJM's Independent Market Monitor said in comments at FERC (EC11-83).
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July 25, 2011
PJM said in a FERC filing that it "will" propose a New Entry Price Adjustment (NEPA) alternative under which PJM would operate a voluntary capacity auction that would allow suppliers to submit offers to sell standardized multi-year contracts in excess of three years (ER11-2875).
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July 22, 2011
Integrys Energy Services to Supply North Aurora Municipal Aggregation
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July 22, 2011
FERC ruled in favor of Integrys Energy Services and, on rehearing, found that refunds originally ordered to be paid to parties engaged in certain virtual transactions in PJM, due to a change in the allocation of marginal line loss surpluses, shall now no longer be paid to such virtual traders…
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July 21, 2011
Various proposals from PJM regarding increased credit requirements, in response to the FERC RTO credit "reform" order, will not help avoid the intended moral hazard or limit risk, and are instead, "just market barriers that solidify the dominance of large incumbent players," CCES LLC said in…
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