NYISO on Feb. 9 proposed a three-tier approach to its Grid in Transition initiative and measuring the effects of market changes to make sure they are working as intended. The ISO in December 2019 issued a report on reliability and market issues related to integrating a host of clean energy...

NYISO’s Business Issues Committee on Wednesday approved revisions to the Transmission and Dispatch Operations Manual that relate to generator fuel and emissions reporting (GFER) and are expected to become effective approximately two weeks after the Operating Committee approval on Feb. 11. "Based on stakeholder feedback, we have developed the functionality...

FERC on Monday approved a settlement agreement requiring Alliance NYGT to pay nearly $900,000 for running two small power plants on natural gas for more than three years while being reimbursed for more expensive kerosene (IN21-4). Under the terms of the agreement with the commission’s Office of Enforcement, the company...

New York offshore wind developers have begun constructing the port facilities needed to build and operate their projects after the state completed the nation’s largest wind procurement last month. With the state’s 2.5-GW award to Equinor in January, New York has contracted nearly half of the 9 GW targeted for...

Some local-level sustainability leaders in New York state are making headway with the legal pathways that they believe will help decarbonize their buildings and meet emission-reduction targets. The city of Ithaca expects to adopt an energy code supplement this spring that would require net-zero-carbon buildings and no fossil fuel use...

Customers were at the center of a panel discussion last week that highlighted what can happen when new state climate laws conflict with those currently governing fossil fuels. While people are working to address those policy conflicts, Dale Bryk, senior fellow for energy and the environment at Regional Plan Association,...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) on Wednesday announced proposed regulations that would require large food scrap generators to donate excess edible food and send scraps to an organics recycler if one is available within 25 miles. The proposed rulemaking would implement requirements outlined in the state...

Last September, FERC ordered RTOs and ISOs to open their markets to distributed energy resource aggregations. The commission said that the grid operators’ existing rules create participation barriers for aggregations in their capacity, energy and ancillary service markets. While proponents have lauded Order 2222 for its intention, there are concerns regarding the...

The New York Public Service Commission on Thursday approved tariff modifications for energy storage cost and benefit recovery by the state’s six major investor-owned electric utilities, authorizing revenue sharing of 30% to utility shareholders and 70% to ratepayers when net wholesale market revenues derived from the storage assets exceed contract...

New York state energy agencies on Tuesday released a three-part study that urges faster permitting, planning and approval processes to build the transmission necessary to accommodate the nearly 40 GW of new renewable energy plugging into the grid over the next two decades. The Initial NY Power Grid Study Report...