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April 4, 2013
Panda Power Funds has completed financing on a 758 megawatt expansion of its natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle power plant currently under construction in Temple, Texas.
April 1, 2013
The New York ISO has filed at FERC tariff modifications to better align the credit requirements for imports to, exports from, and wheels through (External Transactions) the New York Control Area with the associated market risk.
March 29, 2013
Yesterday, Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson said that when reviewing appropriate generator offer behavior under the Commission's rules, marginal cost should be interpreted as long-run marginal costs, rather than short-run marginal costs.
March 28, 2013
Donna Nelson, Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, has proposed that the Commission provide stakeholders with a formal opportunity to comment on the Interim Solution B+ proposal to improve scarcity pricing, and the related ERCOT backcast results, followed by a workshop "this summer."
March 25, 2013
Ameresco Names New Senior Director of Energy Supply Management
March 22, 2013
ERCOT has issued a final determination of Reliability Must-Run (RMR) status for the Lower Colorado River Authority's Ferguson Power Plant G1 (FERGUS_FERGUSG1)
March 22, 2013
ERCOT has filed its backcast analysis of market prices had the Interim Solution B+ approach to improve the scarcity pricing mechanism been in place in 2011-12.
March 22, 2013
A new report from The Brattle Group confirms that an energy-only market is sustainable from a resource adequacy perspective.
March 19, 2013
FERC exceeded its statutory powers in fining a natural gas trader $30 million for allegedly manipulating natural gas futures contracts because the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over all transactions involving commodity futures contracts, the United States Court of…
March 18, 2013
Carthage Energy, LLC has provided notice to the New York PSC withdrawing its earlier intent retire the Carthage Energy electric generation facility.
March 11, 2013
Dominion announced today that it has signed a purchase and sale agreement for three merchant generation power stations with a subsidiary of funds controlled by Energy Capital Partners, a private equity firm.
March 7, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and GDF SUEZ Energy North America, Inc. have filed a settlement for approval of a new Voluntary Mitigation Plan (VMP).
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…
February 22, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and Calpine Corporation have filed for approval of a settlement agreement establishing a Voluntary Mitigation Plan (VMP) for Calpine, which specifies offering practices that Calpine may use when offering its generation resources into the ERCOT…
February 19, 2013
ERCOT has issued an initial determination concerning the Notification of Suspension of Operations for the Lower Colorado River Authority's Ferguson unit FERGUS_FERGUSG1.
February 14, 2013
ERCOT Files Backcast of Operating Reserve Demand Curve Proposal
February 13, 2013
PacifiCorp and the California Independent System Operator Corporation have released a memorandum of understanding that commits the two largest western U.S. grid operators to work toward creating a real-time energy imbalance market (EIM) by October of 2014.
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.
February 4, 2013
FERC last week clarified that its prior suspension of the market-based rate authority of J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation did not modify or abrogate pre-existing contracts
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.
January 29, 2013
Tenaska and the Brownsville Public Utilities Board (BPUB) announced Monday that they have entered into a development and purchase agreement for construction of a proposed 800-megawatt (MW) natural gas-fueled electric generating station in Brownsville, Texas.
January 28, 2013
ERCOT has received Notification of Suspension of Operations for the following Generation Resource:
January 28, 2013
The New Hampshire PUC has opened an investigation into the market conditions affecting the default service of Public Service Company of New Hampshire in the near term and how PSNH proposes to maintain safe and reliable service to its default service customers at just and reasonable rates in light of…
January 25, 2013
Hess Commences Tolling Agreement in ISO New England
January 25, 2013
Texas Public Utility Commissioners agreed yesterday that ERCOT should study the proposed Interim Solution B to improve scarcity pricing by utilizing reserve demand curves.
