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By Rory D. Sweeney Less than half of PJM stakeholders considering the addition of a seasonal capacity product favor a change in the current rules. Only 48% of members who voted in the Seasonal Capacity Resources Senior Task Force poll last week favored any change, while 52% chose the status...

CARMEL, Ind. — MISO posted the second draft of the 2016 Transmission Expansion Plan report last week,  complete except for the executive summary and Appendix A2’s cost allocation explanation. Hellalat © RTO Insider MISO’s Omar Hellalat told the Planning Advisory Committee last week that stakeholder feedback forms, which will be...

By Julie Gromer FERC is considering changes to its Electric Quarterly Report (EQR) rules, including requiring data on ancillary services transactions and changes to how financially settled trades are reported. In its Sept. 22 notice of the proposed changes, the commission said it will accept comments on the proposals for...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — FERC said last week it is considering changing how it evaluates market power in electric utility mergers and applications for market-based rate authority (MBRA). Most of the changes the commission is considering in its Notice of Inquiry (RM16-21) would affect merger reviews. The commission...

By Amanda Durish Cook ST. PAUL, Minn. — MISO stakeholders last week continued their critique of the RTO’s proposed Competitive Retail Solution. MISO’s proposal and the broader issue of resource adequacy were the “hot topic” at last week’s Advisory Committee discussion moderated by consultant Robert Gee. Gee began by asking...

By Rory D. Sweeney PJM is trying to usurp the Independent Market Monitor’s authority to regulate fuel-cost policies and consequently increasing market participants’ ability to exercise market power, the Monitor argued in a protest Friday (ER16-372). PJM’s proposed plan for evaluating fuel-cost policies, filed Aug. 16, “would substantively change the...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Independent Market Monitor David Patton said that although MISO markets and operations performed well over a warmer-than-usual summer, there is room for improvement, namely in price-setting protocols. Patton © RTO Insider Patton said MISO’s all-in energy price increased 9% from spring to summer, owing to increased...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Gavin Donohue, CEO of the Independent Power Producers of New York, opened the group’s fall meeting last week by declaring as its top priority NYISO’s reset of the installed capacity demand curve. Donohue noted the ISO’s prediction that New York’s Clean Energy Standard will significantly increase...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — A forward capacity market may have worked for PJM and ISO-NE, but it isn’t the solution for NYISO, the Market Monitor told the Independent Power Producers of New York’s fall conference last week. PJM and ISO-NE officials told an audience of about...

By Suzanne Herel and Rich Heidorn Jr. PJM must develop a new method for allocating auction revenue rights that doesn’t consider extinct generators, FERC ruled last week. The commission said PJM had correctly diagnosed that its existing rules for ARRs and financial transmission rights were no longer just and reasonable...