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By Rory D. Sweeney PJM and the Retail Energy Supply Association want a say in Dayton Power and Light’s plan to keep its coal-fired plants running. Both organizations have filed motions to intervene in DP&L’s “electric security plan” application before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. If their past actions...

ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee canceled its scheduled June 30 meeting but held an email vote to unanimously approve a nodal operating guide revision request removing references to the provision of responsive reserves across DC ties. NOGRR 156 became effective July 1. The operating guides have included the references to responsive...

Members Prepped for Problem Statement on Settlement Intervals, Shortage Pricing WILMINGTON, Del. — The PJM Markets and Reliability Committee will be asked to approve a problem statement on first read next month regarding rule changes to comply with FERC Order 825, which requires RTOs to align their settlement and dispatch...

By Rory Sweeney FERC’s technical conference last week on Order 1000’s performance produced a mix of feedback, with some participants suggesting complete overhauls of the landmark rule and others saying it’s too early to tell if any changes would be useful. But nearly every participant urged the commission to improve...

By Robert Mullin CAISO’s regulation costs have quadrupled since the ISO increased requirements to help balance variable output from renewable resources. Daily payments to regulation service providers jumped from about $100,000 to more than $400,000 after CAISO increased the requirements in late February, according to a report from the ISO’s...

By Amanda Durish Cook DETROIT — MISO’s Independent Market Monitor added eight new recommendations in its 2015 State of the Market Report. The 124-page report concluded that MISO’s energy and ancillary markets “generally performed competitively” last year. Monitor David Patton outlined the recommendations, four of which involve resource adequacy and...

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 Insider.

By Robert Mullin Concerned that large numbers of gas-fired generators will retire early because of competition from lower-cost renewables, CAISO last week proposed a study to identify the most vulnerable units in its balancing area. The initiative to gauge the risk of “economically driven” retirements is a result of California’s...

The ERCOT Board of Directors approved extending a reliability-must-run contract with NRG Energy for its Greens Bayou Unit 5 plant in the Houston area. The RMR, ERCOT’s first in five years, will run through June 30, 2018, at which time additional generation and transmission infrastructure is expected to be in...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — Four Ph.Ds. joined in a tag-team debate last week on the virtues of scarcity pricing versus capacity markets in a panel discussion-cum-economics seminar at the Energy Bar Association’s Annual Meeting. Hogan © RTO Insider It’s unlikely any of the combatants, who have often sparred...