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FERC on Wednesday denied rehearing of its June decision certifying the ninth Forward Capacity Auction results in ISO-NE, dealing another blow to a utility union’s claim that supply of the Brayton Point plant was illegally withheld to raise prices (EL15-1137). The Utility Workers Union of America, which represents workers at...

By Suzanne Herel Power purchase agreements proposed by American Electric Power and FirstEnergy need changes to preserve competition and Ohio’s ability to attract merchant generation, PJM said this week. The RTO made the recommendations in testimony to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (14-1693-EL-RDR, 14-1694-EL-AAM, 14-1297-EL-SSO). The filings were virtually...

By Michael Brooks FERC last week approved Tariff revisions that will allow CAISO’s Energy Imbalance Market to automatically recognize the capacity that participants outside of the ISO’s footprint use to maintain reliability in their own territories (ER15-861-006). In its filing proposing the change, CAISO told the commission that its software’s...

Public Service Enterprise Group and the PJM Power Providers Group (P3) asked the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals last week to overturn two FERC orders approving PJM capacity market rules. PSEG challenged FERC’s Oct. 15 ruling denying rehearing of a 2014 order approving PJM’s changes to its capacity auction demand...

By Michael Brooks Resource adequacy in MISO’s Zone 4 isn’t a problem now, but it will be if the RTO doesn’t reform its markets to encourage generation development and demand response participation, speakers told the Illinois Commerce Commission at a policy session last week. The commission called the session to...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM will use the default economic capacity base load (CBL) to measure the non-summer response of Capacity Performance demand response under manual and Tariff revisions endorsed by the Market Implementation Committee last week. The method will allow PJM to bypass the more labor-intensive relative root mean...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM is drafting manual changes to document the parameter adjustment process under Capacity Performance rules. The process allows a generation operator to request an adjustment if it believes its resource’s physical constraints will prevent it from meeting the parameters assigned by PJM. Related revisions to Manual...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — The Planning Committee approved changes to Manual 19 allowing distributed solar generation to be included in the load forecast model. The group was split in its decision, with 77 voting yes, 18 voting no and 89 members abstaining. Steve Herling, PJM vice president of planning, said...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — Signaling a newfound sense of urgency, MISO officials last week proposed a switch to a two-season capacity market procurement and appointed a team to consider ways to retain merchant generators in Illinois. Under a draft proposal outlined to stakeholders last week, MISO would...