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April 6, 2012
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for publication concerning an increase in the high and low system offer caps and the peaker net margin in ERCOT (40268).
March 23, 2012
The California PUC has directed Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric to enter into contract negotiations with Calpine for Calpine to maintain operation of the Sutter Energy Center, with costs recovered via nonbypassable charge.
March 14, 2012
More than 93 percent of the total revenue paid by customers under the PJM Reliability Pricing Model has gone to the owners of existing power plants, the American Public Power Association said in a recent issue brief .
March 7, 2012
Public Utility Commission of Texas Chairman Donna Nelson and Commissioner Kenneth Anderson have both proposed raising the System Wide Offer Cap in ERCOT to as high as $7,500/MWh, but disagree on whether any incremental change should occur for the summer of 2012.
March 2, 2012
ERCOT has awarded the Request for Proposal for a study to examine resource adequacy incentive factors, and factors that influence investment decisions for generation, to the Brattle Group, Inc.
March 1, 2012
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has released a preliminary summer resource adequacy assessment, in which ERCOT said that it will not likely need to issue rotating outages, unless there are a higher-than-normal number of forced generation outages or record-breaking weather conditions…
February 24, 2012
PUCT Chair Donna Nelson is, "definitely in favor of increasing the System Wide Offer Cap" and "tweaking" the Power Balance Penalty Curve, Nelson said during a resource adequacy workshop held by the Commission yesterday.
February 22, 2012
A proposed California PUC decision would find that there is no need for additional generation by 2020 at this time, and would refine the process to compare competitive offers to build new generation with utility owned generation.
February 13, 2012
Calpine has recommended to the PUCT that "the obligation to serve" be "placed on the table for discussion" as the Commission contemplates resource adequacy.
February 13, 2012
It is becoming increasingly clear that the biggest threat to retail customer choice is not regulators, legislators, incumbent utilities, or consumer advocates, but rather the owners of formerly incumbent generating assets, who now seek to foreclose the retail market after successfully stopping the…
February 10, 2012
Calpine said this morning that it is evaluating adding at least 550 MW of new capacity in ERCOT.
February 7, 2012
AEP Texas Central Company and AEP Texas North Company have reached agreements to expand the amount of load in their 2012 commercial load management programs, in light of resource adequacy concerns.
January 26, 2012
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric informed the PUCT yesterday that it had reached agreement with several parties to expand its load management program, which pays enrolled customers for curtailments during called events at peak times.
January 25, 2012
The Texas Coalition for Affordable Power has released an updated version of its report of electric deregulation in Texas.
January 23, 2012
Oncor Electric Delivery petitioned the Public Utility Commission of Texas for a good cause exception order to allow it to procure another 50 MW of curtailable load for the summer of 2012 (Docket 40123).
January 18, 2012
A California PUC comment (draft) resolution would direct Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric to negotiate to enter into a contract with Calpine's Sutter Energy Center to end no later than December 31, 2012, and would adopt a nonbypassable charge to pay…
January 13, 2012
The PUCT intends to act on Commissioner Kenneth Anderson's "Category Three" issues relating to resource adequacy by the end of the summer, Commissioners agreed at yesterday's open meeting.
January 11, 2012
ERCOT is considering a Distributed Load Aggregation program, which would allow smaller customers to provide demand response during emergencies, it said in a resource adequacy status report to the PUCT.
January 9, 2012
Maryland PSC Staff has proposed annual reporting requirements for curtailment service providers, which are subject to licensure by the Commission.
December 20, 2011
New Jersey should consider the possibility of creating a state power authority if ratepayer-backed long-term capacity contracts fail to clear the May 2012 and May 2013 Reliability Pricing Model auctions, New Jersey BPU Staff has recommended to the Board.
December 16, 2011
It would be "premature" to undertake a fundamental re-design of the Midwest ISO resource adequacy plan at this time, FERC said in denying rehearing on prior orders regarding the current "voluntary" monthly capacity auction in MISO (ER08-394).
December 9, 2011
PUCT Commissioner Kenneth Anderson yesterday wished to make "crystal clear" to the resource community that a capacity market, "is not on the table" at this time, as the Commission examines various measures to assure resource adequacy in ERCOT.
December 9, 2011
PUCT Commissioners yesterday directed ERCOT to study several measures meant to ensure that proper price signals are sent in the energy-only market, including the amount of Responsive Reserve Service (RRS), and the floor for energy bids for units that are committed under Reliability Unit Commitment…
December 8, 2011
ERCOT Requires Additional Time for Monticello RMR Determination
December 6, 2011
PUCT Commissioner Kenneth Anderson express continued skepticism of capacity markets during a conference call with UBS Investment Research this afternoon.
