The Biden administration announced Monday it will open a new area between Long Island and New Jersey to offshore wind development and pledged to speed reviews of projects to meet a goal of 30 GW by 2030. The new area and the 2030 target were among a flurry of announcements...

NYISO this week urged the New York Public Service Commission to "move quickly" in supporting construction of a meshed transmission network to support at least 9 GW of offshore wind "before opportunities for an efficient design are foreclosed." Stakeholders have had a couple months to review state regulators’ draft power...

PJM’s minimum offer price rule (MOPR) is living on borrowed time if the comments at FERC’s technical conference on capacity markets Tuesday are any guide (AD21-10). FERC Chair Richard Glick and PJM CEO Manu Asthana both said the MOPR is not "sustainable" because it is frustrating state decarbonization efforts. "We’re...

New York officials on Monday held the first of three public hearings as they prepare the first annual report of statewide greenhouse gas emissions required by the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). The state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is preparing the report to be issued this...

The New York Public Service Commission on Thursday approved the 132-MW South Fork Wind project’s application to lay 7.5 miles of export cable from the federal waters boundary to a substation in East Hampton, Long Island (Case No. 18-T-0604). "This order marks a milestone in New York’s bold initiative to...

NYISO locational-based marginal prices averaged $63.70/MWh in February, up from $37.83/MWh the previous month and more than triple the $21.11/MWh average in February 2020, Rana Mukerji, senior vice president for market structures, said in delivering the monthly operations report to the Business Issues Committee on Wednesday. Day-ahead and real-time load-weighted...

NYISO on Thursday kicked off an effort to create a market participation model that would allow an energy storage resource (ESR) and one or more generators to be located at a single point of interconnection, share the same point identifier (PTID) and act as a single resource. The project is...

Blackstone Group’s Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) transmission project has made allies of power producers and environmentalists, both of whom continue to oppose the underwater line as the deadline for comment on a permit change with state regulators passed on March 8 (Case No. 10-T-0139). The $3 billion, 330-mile HVDC...

Residents speaking to New York’s Climate Action Council Wednesday urged haste in stopping construction of new gas-fired power plants, closing old peaker plants and increasing the use of energy storage and other new technologies to reduce emissions and move the state toward a net-zero grid. Laura Burkhart, an engineer from...

NYISO on Thursday discussed potential steps to better align New York State Reliability Council (NYSRC) studies for setting the statewide installed reserve margin (IRM) with the ISO’s studies for establishing locational minimum installed capacity requirements (LCRs) for the zones associated with the Hudson River Valley, New York City and Long...