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April 22, 2019
Leadership Says Initiative Violates Ballot Requirements
Leadership of the Florida Senate and House have filed briefs with the state's Supreme Court opposing inclusion of the proposed electric choice constitutional amendment initiative on the 2020 ballot, arguing that the initiative violates requirements to be on the ballot, such as the single subject…
April 18, 2019
During today's open meeting, Commissioners of the Public Utility Commission of Texas agreed that the operating reserve demand curve and the real time reliability deployment price adder should remain in place in the ERCOT market even when the low system wide offer cap (LCAP) is triggered (when peaker…
April 16, 2019
Several Texas retail electric providers and industrial customers sought a reduction in the ERCOT system-wide offer cap (SWOC) under implementation of real-time co-optimization (RTC) in ERCOT
April 16, 2019
Star Energy Partners LLC (Star) has petitioned the Maryland PSC for a waiver of certain COMAR provisions to enable Star to offer a real-time wholesale electricity market index product to customers in Maryland that would include a subscription (or membership) charge
April 12, 2019
Would Not Increase Level For LCAP
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for adoption in a rulemaking concerning discrete changes to the scarcity pricing rules
April 11, 2019
Has Proposed Heightened Scrutiny Of New Market Participants, Background Checks Of Officers Of Non-Public Companies
April 1, 2019
Prices Could Rise To $12,000/MWh
PJM filed at FERC several changes to the reserve market to address price formation
April 1, 2019
Proceeding Could End Plain Vanilla Default Service, End Use Of Full Requirements Contracts
The Pennsylvania Office of Small Business Advocate has asked the Pennsylvania PUC for a 60-day extension for the filing of initial comments in the PUC's new proceeding examining "smart" default service rates, cost allocation, and rate design (captioned officially as "Investigations into Default…
March 26, 2019
ISO New England has filed at FERC for approval to implement an inventoried energy program for the winters of 2023-2024 and 2024-2025
March 22, 2019
FERC issued an order on a compliance filing from PJM in which PJM had submitted various revisions to its operating agreement to comply with a prior FERC order concerning the reporting of uplift to market participants
March 13, 2019
The New York State Assembly and Senate have released budget resolutions which include elimination of a current exemption from "sales" tax for deliveries of electricity and natural gas supply to customers of ESCOs.
March 1, 2019
DeAnn Walker, Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, said during yesterday's open meeting that while she wishes to afford stakeholders an ample opportunity to review real-time co-optimization (RTC) of energy and ancillary services in ERCOT, she was not comfortable with a protracted process…
February 26, 2019
TCPA: "Misleading" To Suggest Customers Will Be Exposed To High Real-Time Prices
In reply comments in a Texas PUC rulemaking concerning changes to the scarcity pricing rules, Texas Competitive Power Advocates (TCPA), in addressing stated concerns about high real-time prices, said that, "Customers should not be exposed to high real-time prices if their REPs are (as they should…
February 22, 2019
Staff of the Texas PUC has filed a proposed list of questions for stakeholder comment concerning policy issues related to the implementation of Real-Time Co-Optimization in the ERCOT wholesale electricity market.
February 12, 2019
ERCOT will hold a Real-time Co-optimization Workshop on March 6th
February 12, 2019
In comments on a Texas PUC rulemaking, Texas Competitive Power Advocates (TCPA) have proposed, as a "preferred" recommendation, eliminating the Low System-Wide Offer Cap (LCAP) in ERCOT
February 4, 2019
Consolidated Edison Company of New York Inc. has filed at FERC for a limited one-time waiver of the New York Independent System Operator’s ('NYISO') Market Administration and Control Area Services Tariff ('Tariff') to allow ConEd and NYISO to correct the Load Serving Entity ('LSE') bus metering data…
February 1, 2019
Says Order Adds Up To $300 Million In Default Allocation To Members
PJM in a January 31 market notice said that FERC's denial of a waiver related to the liquidation of certain Financial Transmission Rights will likely place a number of members in breach of their collateral requirements under PJM’s credit policy.
January 31, 2019
FERC has denied a request from PJM for certain waivers relating to the liquidation of the GreenHat Energy, LLC Financial Transmission Rights (FTR) portfolio, with FERC denying waivers that would have resulted in the modification of the previously commenced July auction
January 30, 2019
As part of an order granting Ambit Northeast, LLC market-based rate authority, FERC directed Ambit Northeast to make refunds for the period of time during which market-based rates were collected without Commission authorization, i.e., May 2012 to December 21, 2018, for Ambit's sale of excess power…
January 28, 2019
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed an updated estimate of installed generation capacity in ERCOT.
January 17, 2019
Note: This story was first published on Jan. 17 with an alert to our email subscribers
December 31, 2018
On December 28, 2018, ERCOT received a Notification of Change of Generation Resource Designation (NCGRD) for each of the following Generation Resources:
December 24, 2018
The ICC issued clarifications to the data requests expounded on retail electric suppliers concerning their provision of transmission cost-related refunds to customers.
December 24, 2018
ERCOT has received a Notification of Suspension of Operations (NSO) for the following Generation Resource: City of Garland – GIBCRK_GIB_CRG1 (Gibbons Creek Generating Station)
