ALBANY, N.Y. — Here’s some of highlights of what RTO Insider heard at the Alliance for Clean Energy New York’s 10th Annual Conference. Voltz | © RTO Insider The Long Island Power Authority is inching toward New York’s first offshore wind farm, which would supply 90 MW of electricity on...

By William Opalka ALBANY, N.Y. — A coalition of environmental groups and clean energy developers on Thursday called for upgrades in New York’s transmission system at the Alliance for Clean Energy New York’s 10th Annual Conference. Reynolds | © RTO Insider “Today’s unique circumstances dictate that the rapid construction of...

By William Opalka Staff of the New York Public Service Commission released a report on Thursday recommending a transition from net energy metering (NEM) to a compensation scheme that provides more accurate, granular values for distributed energy resources (15-E-0751). “With a more accurate, market-based approach to compensate consumers for the...

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...