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July 1, 2011
PJM has proposed two sets of minimum participation criteria which market participants would be required to meet in order to participate in the PJM market, which small firms have said will drive them out of the market.
June 29, 2011
Integrys Energy Services Seeks FERC Action on SECA Rehearing, Compliance Filings
June 27, 2011
PJM has filed revisions to its operating agreement to lower the quorum requirement for any meeting of the PJM Members Committee.
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
FERC has approved without modification a settlement under which all claims that arose, or could have arisen, under the PJM-Midwest ISO Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) are released, and which imposes a one-year time limit for future claims arising under the JOA.
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).
May 26, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved, without modification, a settlement which, among other things, transfers the obligation for Network Integration Transmission Services (NITS) to Duke Energy Ohio for itself as well all competitive retail suppliers in its service area (11-2641-EL-RDR).
May 23, 2011
In addition to previously announced divestitures, Constellation Energy and Exelon have committed to sell 500 MW of baseload energy under contracts that will extend through the end of 2014 as part of seeking approval of their merger at FERC.
May 16, 2011
PJM's Base Residual Auction for the 2014-2015 Delivery Year produced a clearing price, for all resources except Limited Demand Response, of $125.99/MW-day for the Rest of RTO region, a spike of nearly $100 versus the 2013-2014 clearing price of $27.73/MW-day.
May 13, 2011
The Fixed Resource Requirement (FRR) alternative to the PJM Reliability Pricing Model capacity auctions is "effectively unavailable" to any state with retail choice, the Maryland PSC said in a rehearing request at FERC, which begs the question, if Maryland and New Jersey are unable to overturn…
May 6, 2011
The United States, particularly New England and the mid-Atlantic, are facing an "alarming" shortage of baseload construction, and efforts by FERC to stymie state-led baseload development will likely lead to a "breaking point" for state policymakers, said Steve Mitnick, president of Build Energy…
May 3, 2011
GDF SUEZ Energy Resources NA announced this morning it is entering the Ohio retail electricity market, specifically entering the Toledo Edison, Cleveland Electric Illuminating, Ohio Edison, and Dayton Power & Light territories.
April 26, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission Of Ohio, PJM, and several other parties have filed protests at FERC against AEP Ohio's complaint seeking to raise the capacity costs paid by competitive retail suppliers (EL11-32).
April 19, 2011
FERC denied PJM's request for a declaratory order concerning a methodology that would determine, "when an entity does not have an economic or commercial interest that would be significantly affected by PJM's actions or decisions."
April 18, 2011
PJM's current tariff regarding the conduct of the incremental auctions under the Reliability Pricing Model could require PJM to seek to procure or release too many or too few capacity commitments relative to the reliability requirement, PJM said in a filing to revise the tariff.
April 13, 2011
FERC denied a complaint from EnerNOC against FirstEnergy Corp. relating to the Fixed Resource Requirement integration auctions which were part of moving the American Transmission Systems Inc. load into PJM (EL10-63).
April 13, 2011
FERC yesterday rushed to adopt tariff changes regarding the PJM Reliability Pricing Model administrative capacity mechanism which are solely designed to raise the capacity prices paid by end use customers by up to $3 billion, in accepting revisions related to the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR).
April 5, 2011
AEP has filed a section 206 complaint at FERC seeking changes to the capacity cost compensation mechanism for utilities using the Fixed Resource Requirement (FRR), after the Commission rejected the AEP Ohio companies' earlier attempt, through a section 205 filing, to raise the capacity costs charged…
March 30, 2011
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities yesterday awarded three long-term Standard Offer Capacity Agreements to build new mid-merit electric generation facilities, which are anticipated to reduce retail electric rates by $1.8 billion.
March 18, 2011
In another order which will eventually raise retail electric rates, FERC mandated the use of a using a "one day in ten year" loss of load criterion in resource adequacy studies in the ReliabilityFirst region (RM10-10).
March 11, 2011
PJM's capacity markets are only competitive due to the application of market mitigation, the annual state of the markets report from PJM's Independent Market Monitor reiterated yesterday.
March 9, 2011
PJM has petitioned FERC for a limited waiver to allow a defaulting PJM Member, York Generation Company, L.L.C., the limited ability to participate in PJM's energy and capacity markets until York has satisfied its outstanding payment obligation to PJM pursuant to the terms and conditions of a payment…
March 9, 2011
PECO informed the Pennsylvania PUC that it is revising the schedule for its Spring 2011 RFP for default service supply to accelerate the bid date from late May to early May (P-2008-2062739).
March 7, 2011
PJM's Reliability Pricing Model, "may provide near-term value to system reliability, [but] these short term solutions will not provide for long-term SOS needs," Maryland PSC Chairman Douglas Nazarian said in testimony protesting proposed changes from PJM and the PJM Power Providers Group regarding…
