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By Robert Mullin The California Public Utilities Commission is protesting FERC’s decision to allow Pacific Gas and Electric to include a 50-basis-point ISO participation adder in its 2017 transmission rates proposal. The CPUC said that the commission’s ruling “ignores the need to demonstrate that an incentive must be ‘justified’ pursuant...
By Robert Mullin The Seattle City Council authorized Seattle City Light to perform “a detailed analysis of costs, benefits and potential risks” of joining the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) to inform the council’s decision on whether to approve the move. González | Seattle.gov The unanimous Oct. 31 vote came...
By Michael Brooks FERC on Wednesday denied San Diego Gas & Electric’s request for rehearing of an order that limited the amount the utility can be reimbursed if its South Orange County Reliability Enhancement (SOCRE) transmission upgrade project is canceled (EL15-103). | SDG&E SDG&E is seeking approval from the California...
By Robert Mullin CAISO’s Board of Governors voted Thursday to expand the definition of a “load-serving entity” to include the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) and other organizations that buy wholesale power to serve their own needs. CAISO proposed to expand the Tariff definition of a load-serving...
By Robert Mullin PacifiCorp reaped more than half the $26.16 million in gross benefits yielded by the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) during the third quarter, market operator CAISO said in a report released Wednesday. | CAISO The Portland-based utility earned $15.1 million in benefits — versus $5.6 million for...
By Robert Mullin A technical conference that convened at FERC headquarters last week to explore external resource participation in the Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) began on a contentious note but concluded with parties on both sides of the issue admitting to a better understanding of the others’ perspectives (ER16-1518). The...
By Robert Mullin Meeting California’s 50% by 2030 renewable standard could require up to $5 billion or more in transmission upgrades, according to a report released this week by the California Energy Commission. The report outlines what transmission projects the state must build or upgrade to connect load zones with...
By Robert Mullin The Sacramento Municipal Utilities District (SMUD) will join the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) in spring 2019 at the earliest, according to the head of the joint powers agency of which the utility is the largest member. Shetler | United Way “As you might guess, this is...
By Robert Mullin FERC on Thursday rejected CAISO’s effort to refund $220 million to scheduling coordinators that the ISO said were misallocated payments to generators operating under must-offer obligations. The decision rendered moot a complaint filed by energy retailers that contended that the refunds were unjustified because they had not been...
By Robert Mullin FERC last week approved CAISO’s use of a natural gas price index included in temporary Tariff provisions the ISO implemented last spring in response to the closure of the Aliso Canyon storage facility (ER16-1649). The ISO revised its index rules to ensure gas-fired generators in Southern California...
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