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Robert Ethier, ISO-NE: Capacity is “an empty obligation.”

Joe Bowring, Monitoring Analytics: “The combination of scarcity pricing and capacity markets is the best way to go.”

David Patton, Potomac Economics: “A competitive exemption [in NYISO] would be great. I give it almost no chance.”

Andy Ott, PJM: “We’re much better off with the forward capacity market than we were” before.

Rana Mukerji, NYISO: “We believe we should tackle the energy market before [changing] capacity.”

Capacity Market Attracts Praise, Criticism at FERC

Oct 1, 2013

Rich Heidorn Jr.

Capacity Market / FERC & Federal / Demand Response / Energy Efficiency

By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — Some came to praise PJM’s Reliability Pricing Model. Others said they’d like to bury it. Six years after RPM’s inception, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission convened a technical conference last week to ask the question: How’s the capacity market working for you? The commission...

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