By Tom Kleckner AUSTIN, Texas — ERCOT stakeholders are once again raising the subject of real-time co-optimization (RTC) after a simulation of a recent market event showed that the ISO might have saved almost $60 million using the process. Garza | © RTO Insider Beth Garza, director of ERCOT’s Independent...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. New generators seeking interconnections must be equipped to provide primary frequency response, FERC ruled Thursday (Order 842, RM16-6). The commission said the requirement that generators have governors or other equipment to respond automatically to frequency disturbances must be included in the pro forma generator interconnection agreements...

By Rory D. Sweeney Despite complaints from PJM’s Independent Market Monitor, FERC last week approved a settlement in a yearslong fight over how much revenue Virginia Electric and Power Co. should receive for its reactive energy supply fleet. Bowring | © RTO Insider The commission’s ruling said “the IMM’s concerns...

Advanced meters have reached a 43% penetration rate but demand resources’ contribution to meeting RTO/ISO peak demand has decreased, FERC reported in its 12th annual report on demand response and advanced metering. DR in the organized wholesale markets dropped to 5.7% in 2016 from 6.6% in 2015 according to RTO/ISO...

FERC last week set hearing and settlement proceedings for a new Ohio merchant plant, saying it had not provided sufficient backing for its reactive power revenue requirement (ER18-92, EL18-32). The 747-MW Carroll County Energy combined cycle plant, expected to go in service this month, is seeking compensation for its generator,...

CARMEL, Ind. — MISO is moving ahead with developing an automatic generation control (AGC) program designed to rapidly deploy 400 MW of fast-ramping resources by regulating either up or down in response to fluctuations in load. Addepalle (left) speaks to the Market Subcommittee as Chairs Kent Feliks and Megan Wisersky...

AUSTIN, Texas — The ERCOT Board of Directors last week unanimously approved a $246.7 million transmission project to address growing energy needs along the Texas Gulf Coast. The Freeport Master Plan Project was endorsed in November by the Technical Advisory Committee before coming to the board Dec. 12. (See ERCOT...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. NERC released its annual Long-Term Reliability Assessment on Thursday, calling for more efforts to preserve “essential reliability services” provided by coal and nuclear plants but saying it is agnostic as to how FERC and regional grid operators do so. “FERC should consider the reliability and resilience...

By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM’s Independent Market Monitor and the RTO are at odds over whether generators should receive additional compensation for providing FERC-mandated primary frequency response. PJM led most of last week’s meeting of the Primary Frequency Response Senior Task Force because, aside from the...

ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee endorsed two previously tabled nodal protocol revision requests (NPRRs) following lengthy discussions last week. NPRR815 increases from 50% to 60% the limit on load resources providing responsive reserve service (RRS) and requires them to provide at least 1,150 MW of primary frequency response (PFR). Changing the...