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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...

By Ted Caddell An executive for power plant developer Competitive Power Ventures, two former aides of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and seven others were named in a broad bribery indictment by federal authorities in New York on Thursday. Kelly Source: CPV Peter Galbraith Kelly Jr., CPV’s head of external affairs and...

By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — A power-flow analysis indicates a reduced version of the current flow pattern is the most reliable resolution when the Con Ed-PSEG ‘wheel’ ends on April 30, PJM and NYISO officials said last week. The grid operators are recommending an “operational base flow” that...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — The last panel of the Independent Power Producers of New York’s fall conference last week featured an environmental activist and representatives of the energy storage, wind and solar industries. And then there was Karen Moreau, charged with making the case for the...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Stuart Nachmias, president of New York Transco, said that New York’s plan to build as much as 1,000 miles of new transmission to accommodate renewables and meet its emission targets will be “a marathon, not a sprint.” NY Transco, a joint venture of Consolidated Edison, Avangrid,...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Gavin Donohue, CEO of the Independent Power Producers of New York, opened the group’s fall meeting last week by declaring as its top priority NYISO’s reset of the installed capacity demand curve. Donohue noted the ISO’s prediction that New York’s Clean Energy Standard will significantly increase...