By Chris O’Malley A consumer group and the Illinois Attorney General have asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to launch an investigation into whether Dynegy illegally manipulated MISO’s Planning Resource Auction last April, resulting in a nine-fold price increase in Zone 4. Public Citizen Inc. also alleged that MISO brushed...

WILMINGTON, Del. — PJM likely will recommend reducing a proposed $30,000 fee for studying transmission projects of $20 million or more. PJM has deferred filing the plan with FERC pending further review, Paul McGlynn, general manager of system planning, told the Markets and Reliability Committee on Thursday. McGlynn said that...

By Chris O’Malley and Rich Heidorn Jr. INDIANAPOLIS — MISO will release the results of its latest resource adequacy survey later this month, after a survey last year caused alarm, with forecasts of capacity shortages in three zones in MISO North and Central. How bad will the new numbers be?...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — PJM officials and the Independent Market Monitor are considering changes to the treatment of virtual transactions to reduce uplift and gaming opportunities and allow quicker solving of the day-ahead energy market. PJM Executive Vice President for Operations Mike Kormos and Market Monitor...

Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability Committee on Thursday. Each item is listed by agenda number, description and projected time of discussion, followed by a summary of the issue and links to prior coverage in RTO Insider.

By Suzanne Herel ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Consumer environmental advocates told the PJM Board of Managers last week that the Capacity Performance proposal could saddle ratepayers with excessive costs because of its treatment of renewable energy. They made their case during their annual meeting with the board last week, at...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — To shake or not to shake the Money Tree? Joe Bowring © RTO Insider That was the question Independent Market Monitor Joe Bowring posed during his Year in Review presentation at PJM's Annual Meeting last week, setting off a lively debate with...

By Chris O’Malley The owners of a hydroelectric station said to have lured Henry Ford to open a vehicle assembly plant in St. Paul 90 years ago have won a regulatory victory forcing Northern States Power to keep buying its electricity. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday denied an...

By Suzanne Herel In its first quarterly State of the Market Report for 2015, PJM’s Independent Market Monitor found that market performance was better than in the first three months of 2014, but it identified areas needing attention, including the ability for participants to increase markups in tight market conditions...

At the New England Energy Conference and Exposition last week, industry experts said there is no evidence that distributed generation is leading to a “death spiral” for traditional utilities. Rigby “We know it’s an issue; with time it could unfold very differently. But for now it’s not really affecting utility...