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By Robert Mullin Seattle City Light has signed an agreement with CAISO to begin participating in the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) in April 2019. “Seattle City Light has preliminarily evaluated the Energy Imbalance Market from an environmental, commercial and reliability perspective, and I believe City Light’s participation can deliver...

CARMEL, Ind. — FERC has extended the comment period on MISO’s proposed forward capacity auction to Dec. 14 (ER17-284). The extension — requested by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and not opposed by MISO — should not affect the RTO’s ability to implement the auction in time for the...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — High generation outage rates in MISO South and suspicions of deliberate over-forecasting by wind operators highlighted the concerns of MISO’s Independent Market Monitor in the fall. Monitor David Patton presented the draft of his fall report at the Dec. 6 meeting of the...

By Amanda Durish Cook FERC dismissed a complaint seeking to overturn the results of MISO’s 2016/17 Planning Resource Auction but ordered the RTO to specify how it calculates the sub-regional transfer constraint in its Tariff. The commission found the RTO didn’t violate its Tariff when it calculated its sub-regional export constraint...

By Robert Mullin CAISO has narrowed a proposal to protect smaller transmission owners from high costs for network upgrades to interconnect generation serving load outside the TOs’ service territories. The revised proposal seeks to more specifically target the situation confronted by Valley Electric Association. Any policy changes would likely also...

AUSTIN, Texas — ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee assigned two subcommittees to consider responses to discrepancies in day-ahead market make-whole payments. ERCOT staff said it noticed a material increase in make-whole payments in November, which it said resulted from the implementation in June of NPRR617, which eliminated the caps on the...

By Rory D. Sweeney PJM stakeholders are discussing the best way to measure distributed energy resources in integrating them into the grid. The debate over metering in front of or behind the customer’s load was the focus of the Market Implementation Committee’s most recent special session on the topic Nov.

By Robert Mullin With winter looming, FERC last week adopted a rule that would double the “hard” offer cap for day-ahead and real-time markets to $2,000/MWh in every RTO and ISO. Order 831 was a response to the 2013-2014 polar vortex, which caused natural gas price spikes that left some...

The NYISO Board of Directors on Tuesday upheld the Management Committee’s vote to cap capacity payments in the constrained Lower Hudson Valley and New York City zones. Zone Map | NYISO The board’s Nov. 15 order rejected an appeal by the Independent Power Producers of New York. The association sought...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. In a rulemaking reflecting both reliability concerns and the technological advances of renewable generators, FERC on Thursday proposed revising the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Agreement (LGIA) and Small Generator Interconnection Agreement (SGIA) to require all newly interconnecting facilities to install and enable primary frequency response...