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By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — Environmental activists opposing fracking and pipeline expansions regularly disrupted FERC meetings during Norman Bay’s two-and-a-half-year tenure as a FERC commissioner and chairman. On at least one occasion, activists took their protests to the street outside Bay’s D.C. house. The activists contended FERC was shirking...
By William Opalka FERC on Friday again rebuffed generators’ request to apply ISO-NE’s minimum offer price rule (MOPR) to 200 MW of renewable generation that were granted an exemption in 2014 (ER14-1639-005). Although the order mainly rehashed old arguments, it offered Commissioner Norman Bay one last chance to blast the...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. PJM’s Independent Market Monitor last week gave his blessing to the RTO’s Base Residual Auction for delivery year 2019/20 but called for additional rule changes to build on the tougher standards of Capacity Performance. The Monitor’s report on the May auction concluded that the results “were...
FERC has again upheld the ISO-NE limited exemption for renewables from the RTO’s minimum offer price rule, saying it was necessary to protect consumers from paying for excess capacity (ER14-1639). The commission voluntarily agreed to reconsider the issue after NextEra Energy and other generation owners asked the D.C. Circuit Court...
By Suzanne Herel PJM last week asked FERC not to order changes to the RTO’s minimum offer price rule before May’s Base Residual Auction but agreed the standard should be changed to counter subsidized offers from existing generators. The RTO said revisions could be made for next year. Davis Besse...
By Suzanne Herel Eleven generating companies, including Calpine, Dynegy and NRG, have asked FERC to expand PJM’s minimum offer price rule in time for May’s 2019/20 Base Residual Auction, as the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is poised to rule on power purchase agreements for FirstEnergy and American Electric Power.
Public Service Enterprise Group and the PJM Power Providers Group (P3) asked the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals last week to overturn two FERC orders approving PJM capacity market rules. PSEG challenged FERC’s Oct. 15 ruling denying rehearing of a 2014 order approving PJM’s changes to its capacity auction demand...
By Suzanne Herel FERC declined last week to rehear a 2013 order approving PJM’s revisions to a rule designed to mitigate buyer-side market power in the capacity market. The ruling addressed the minimum offer price rule (MOPR), which PJM added to its auction protocols in 2006 amid concern that load...
NYISO last week asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to exempt competitive transmission, including the Champlain Hudson project, from the ISO’s buyer-side mitigation rules. The ISO and other stakeholders filed comments last week in response to a December complaint by transmission owners, who said NYISO’s market power rules are being...
Load and supply factions deadlocked Thursday, as members rejected three proposed changes to the Minimum Offer Pricing Rule. The score was nil-nil-nil for proposals by PJM, PSEG and a joint plan backed by Maryland regulators and consumer advocates. At issue was the MOPR unit-specific review process, which sets a floor...
