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MISO’s average load during July was 87.9 GW, 4.8 GW more than June and about the same as last year, said Shawn McFarlane, executive director of strategy and enterprise risk management, during an Aug. 23 Informational Forum. McFarlane said July temperatures were close to normal. Load peaked at 120.7 GW...

By Robert Mullin FERC last week approved rule changes to improve the ability of energy storage resources to participate in CAISO’s markets (ER16-1735). The changes will allow “non-generator resources” to submit their state-of-charge as a bid parameter in the day-ahead market and manage their own state-of-charge and energy limits for...

By Rory D.  Sweeney Acknowledging stakeholders’ criticism, PJM removed capacity-deficiency and administrative penalties it had proposed for its fuel-cost policy rules and instead offered a single formula-based one. The proposal was made in the compliance filing PJM submitted to FERC on Aug. 16 (ER16-372-002). The filing was supposed to focus...

By Suzanne Herel VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — After PJM’s Craig Glazer started with the food analogies, speakers at Thursday’s Grid 20/20 symposium couldn’t resist serving up a smorgasbord of edible metaphors. Glazer, vice president of federal government policy, kicked off the conference, “Focus on Public Policy Goals and Market Efficiency,”...

By Robert Mullin Critics of a proposal to lower CAISO’s energy market bid floor last week questioned the need for the measure and its efficacy in solving the ISO’s increasing intervals of oversupply. The ISO contends that reducing the bid floor from -$150/MWh to -$300/MWh will provide the market with...

By Rory D. Sweeney and Rich Heidorn Jr. The grand bargain that created PJM’s capacity market in 2007 has suffered fissures in the years since because of repeated rule changes. Now, a coalition of cooperatives and municipal utilities says it’s time to start over. At this week’s Markets and Reliability...

By Rory D. Sweeney Stakeholders continue to react coolly to PJM’s proposed rules for generator fuel-cost policies, spending two and a half hours expressing their concerns at last week’s Market Implementation Committee meeting. PJM has held three meetings in the past three weeks to explain the policy to stakeholders, several...

By Suzanne Herel PJM’s wholesale energy, capacity and regulation markets were competitive for the first half of the year, but there is room for improvement, according to the second quarter State of the Market Report by Monitoring Analytics. The Independent Market Monitor made new recommendations for the energy, capacity and...

Excess capacity expected to be released in the third incremental auction for the 2017/18 delivery year in February would likely clear at $0 under current rules, PJM’s Jeff Bastian told the Market Implementation Committee Wednesday. To avoid that, PJM presented a proposal that would release excess capacity on an upward...

ERCOT will rely on its stakeholders to improve its reliability-must-run (RMR) practices after a second rejection last week of a protocol change that would allow the economic dispatch of RMR units. The ISO’s Board of Directors on Aug. 9 rejected NRG Texas and Reliant Energy Retail Services’ appeal of a...