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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...
Likely Dates for Delayed Capacity Auction: Aug. 3 or 10
May 11, 2015
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — The most likely dates for the 2018/19 Base Residual Auction to commence are Aug. 3 or Aug. 10, Jeff Bastian, manager of capacity market operations, told the Market Implementation Committee last week. The timing will be determined by when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rules on...
By Suzanne Herel VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Months of debate over whether to create “historic” capacity rights for some unnamed load-serving entities in PJM got a face last week when a small contingent from the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency showed up at a meeting of the Market Implementation Committee to...
By William Opalka ISO-NE said a power plant owner facing millions in what it says are mistaken capacity charges had plenty of time to correct the record, and that amending auction results after the fact would undermine the market. Canal Generating Plant GenOn Energy Management, a unit of NRG Energy,...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. If the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission keeps its word, virtual traders in PJM should have clarity by the end of October on whether up-to-congestion transactions will be subject to additional charges. In opening a section 206 docket on the issue last year, the commission said it...
By William Opalka NYISO can force idled generators to allow use of their interconnections for reliability purposes, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled last week, saying that such actions do not constitute an unconstitutional “taking” under the Fifth Amendment. The commission approved most of the tariff revisions NYISO proposed in...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — A federal appellate court Friday threw out the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2013 rule exempting diesel generators providing demand response from air emissions limits. “Because EPA too cavalierly sidestepped its responsibility to address reasonable alternatives, its action was not rational and must, therefore, be set...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. A proposal to impose a temporary $0.07/MWh uplift charge on all netted virtual transactions received a cool response from PJM members Thursday — including a rebuff from the attorney for the Financial Marketers Coalition. Noha Sidhom of Inertia Power proposed the charge as an interim response...