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By Amanda Durish Cook MISO will delay the introduction of seasonal and locational capacity constructs for a year, officials revealed Wednesday during the RTO’s first-ever Resource Adequacy Subcommittee meeting. MISO acknowledged that it missed its original goal of making a FERC filing in December and now hopes for a May...
By Tom Kleckner ERCOT said last week it continues to expect to have sufficient resources to meet projected peak-demand during the spring and summer, with more than 79,000 MW of generation capacity available. The Texas grid operator is projecting a spring demand peak of 58,279 MW, a 700-MW increase from...
By Amanda Durish Cook Dynegy and Exelon proposed last week that MISO Zone 4 procure capacity in three-year forward auctions separate from the rest of the RTO. The two companies — Illinois' biggest power producers — offered separate proposals that would adopt elements of PJM’s model beginning in 2017. Both...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — A parade of witnesses implored the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Thursday to reverse its position in a case that they say could undermine the broad exemptions the commission granted RTOs and ISOs in 2013. At issue is the CFTC’s draft order on a...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. and Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Maryland and Competitive Power Ventures got little support from Supreme Court justices during oral arguments in their federal-state jurisdiction case Wednesday. The justices also interrogated Paul Clement, attorney for Talen Energy Marketing, which challenged Maryland’s deal for CPV’s combined...
Pact to Keep Plant Operating Though March 2017 By William Opalka NEW YORK — The New York Public Service Commission Tuesday approved a contract to keep the struggling R.E. Ginna nuclear power plant operating through March 2017 (14-E-0270). The commission approved a reliability support services agreement between distribution utility Rochester...
By Robert Mullin FERC last week proposed eliminating a market transparency rule imposed on the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) region during the height of the California energy crisis of 2000-2001, citing a decade of advances designed to protect state’s organized electricity markets from price manipulation. The commission on Thursday...
Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability and Members committees 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...
WASHINGTON — FERC Chairman Norman Bay said he expects the Supreme Court to take a nuanced view of federal-state jurisdictional issues when it hears oral arguments Wednesday in a dispute involving state subsidies for generation developers. Bay said he considered the case as one of the court’s “FERC trilogy,” following...
Exelon has asked the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn two FERC orders that reaffirmed the zero-price offer requirement in ISO-NE’s new entrant pricing rule (16-1042). FERC last month again rejected complaints by Exelon and Calpine that the rule unreasonably suppresses capacity prices and discriminates against existing resources. The...
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