Texas regulators last week issued requests for comments on real-time co-optimization (RTC) and incorporating marginal losses into dispatch decisions, proposals that have varying levels of stakeholder support. On June 29, ERCOT’s Independent Market Monitor filed a report at the Public Utility Commission indicating RTC could have saved as much as...

By Michael Kuser, Rory D. Sweeney, Amanda Durish Cook and Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — FERC Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur, who has been attending the commission’s annual reliability technical conference since her appointment in 2014, always opens the meeting by citing something special about each year’s gathering. LaFleur | © RTO...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM’s Ray Fernandez told attendees at last week’s Market Implementation Committee meeting that his staff are still completing calculations for part of FERC’s ruling on retroactively reallocating costs for certain transmission projects in the RTO’s territory (EL05-121). Staff have requested to extend the compliance filing deadline...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Grid operators faced several high load forecasts and hot weather alerts last month but never had to take emergency procedures, PJM’s Chris Pilong told attendees at last week’s Operating Committee meeting. Pilong | © RTO Insider Pilong reviewed five hot-weather alerts for the month, along with...

ERCOT is leaving significant amounts of money on the table by not using real-time co-optimization (RTC) of energy and ancillary services in its market operations, a study by the ISO’s Independent Market Monitor has concluded. In its study filed last month with the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the Monitor...

By Amanda Durish Cook FERC last week ordered settlement procedures over Pioneer Trail Wind Farm’s request to recover $826,926 annually to provide reactive supply and voltage control in MISO. The commission said the amount requested by the 150-MW Illinois wind project could be unjust and unreasonable but allowed the rate...

FERC last week accepted Great River Energy’s slimmed-down annual revenue requirement for reactive supply and voltage control at eight of its generating stations. The cooperative’s revenue requirement is reduced by a little more than $1 million per year with the June 21 order (EL18-45). Stanton Station | Great River Energy...

By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Calpine and American Electric Power are offering stakeholder alternatives to plans from PJM and its Independent Market Monitor for complying with FERC Order 842, which requires certain generators to provide primary frequency response. Generation stakeholders have resisted proposals that would require existing...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. Electric storage resources (ESRs) 100 kW or larger would be eligible to offer capacity, energy and ancillary services under a straw proposal MISO officials presented to stakeholders Wednesday. FERC Order 841 (RM16-23), which requires RTOs to remove barriers to storage’s participation, includes 74 requirements, which MISO...

By Rory D. Sweeney FERC agreed last week to postpone a technical conference over PJM’s frequency regulation market and appoint a settlement judge to help resolve a dispute over how the service is compensated (EL17-64, EL17-65, ER18-87). The Energy Storage Association, Renewable Energy Systems Americas and Invenergy Storage Development, which...