By William Opalka RENSSELAER, N.Y. — Over objections by generators, the NYISO Management Committee on Wednesday approved a temporary rule change to partially insulate consumers from sharply higher capacity prices as a result of exports from constrained zones. NYISO Zone Map | NYISO The committee approved its interim solution with...

By Michael Brooks New resources that clear ISO-NE’s Forward Capacity Auction will be able to begin supplying capacity earlier than the usual three-year lead time under a package of Tariff revisions approved by FERC last week (ER16-2451, AD16-26). The changes are intended to enhance liquidity in the RTO’s capacity market:...

By Ted Caddell and William Opalka Despite its best efforts to avoid litigation, the New York Public Service Commission saw its Clean Energy Standard challenged in federal court Wednesday by a group of energy companies and trade groups calling the rule’s subsidies to several nuclear power plants unconstitutional. The suit,...

By William Opalka ALBANY, N.Y. — New York regulators on Thursday refined their rules on how municipalities can aggregate customers to purchase gas and electricity and rejected a request that the program abandon its opt-out structure (14-M-0224). | Wikipedia The New York Public Service Commission’s Community Choice Aggregation program is...

By William Opalka Consumer advocate Public Citizen on Tuesday protested Energy’s proposed sale of the James A. FitzPatrick nuclear plant to Exelon, saying the companies’ FERC application failed to include information about the state subsidy that makes the transaction possible (EC16-169). Public Citizen says omission of the subsidy makes the...

By William Opalka NYISO last week forwarded to New York regulators 12 proposals for transmission projects to help the state meet its public policy objectives (16-E-0558). The proposed projects, coming at the start of the ISO’s 2016/17 transmission planning cycle, would provide the state with access to offshore wind resources...

RENSSELAER, N.Y. — The NYISO Reliability Needs Assessment for 2017-2026 identified two transmission security needs beginning next year. The assessment, which was approved by the Management Committee on Wednesday, identified the risk of thermal overloads on New York State Electric and Gas’ Oakdale 345/115-kV transformer in the Binghamton area and...

Jones © RTO Insider NYISO CEO Brad Jones said he is not convinced by any argument that the DER Roadmap pits the strength of a large grid against the resiliency of a small grid, as the system needs both to be robust. “Our goal is to find a way to...

By Amanda Durish Cook A proposal by MISO and ITC Holdings to allocate the costs of phase angle regulating transformers (PARs) to entities outside of MISO is not just and reasonable, FERC ruled last week. The commission’s Sept. 22 order upheld Administrative Law Judge Steven Sterner’s 2012 decision prohibiting MISO...

By William Opalka ALBANY, N.Y. — California’s challenge in integrating large amounts of renewable generation is illustrated by its famous “duck curve” graph. For New York, the future looks more like a platypus. Mukerji © RTO Insider That’s how Rana Mukerji, NYISO’s senior vice president of market structures, described the...