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(Source: Northern Indiana Public Service Company) WASHINGTON -- PJM and MISO will need to add a few more chairs for their next Joint and Common Market meeting. Impatient over the pace of progress, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said last week it will begin having FERC staff monitor JCM meetings...

In its complaint against PJM and MISO (EL13-88), the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. proposed the following changes: The MISO-PJM cross-border planning process should run concurrently with the MISO Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP) and PJM Regional Transmission Expansion Plan (RTEP) planning cycles, rather than after those regional planning cycles. NIPSCO...

The Marcellus shale formation in Pennsylvania and West Virginia will account for 18% of U.S. natural gas production this month, the Energy Information Administration reported. “Production growth in the region has driven down the forward price of natural gas at the Columbia Gas Transmission Appalachia hub below Louisiana’s Henry Hub price, the...

(Source: CT Dept. of Energy & Environmental Protection) Democratic governors from Maryland, Delaware and six other Eastern states yesterday asked the Environmental Protection Agency to impose controls on coal pollution they say is damaging air quality in their states. The aggrieved states want EPA to force nine "upwind" states —...

WASHINGTON — The cost of complying with upcoming carbon emission caps will depend on the role of energy efficiency and the choice of “blended” or fuel-specific emission standards, speakers told a high profile forum here last week. A popular parlor game in Washington these days is debating what the Environmental...

As expected, the PJM Board of Managers asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve capacity market changes rejected by stakeholders last month. PJM’s Nov. 29 filing (ER14-504) seeks to change the way demand response clears in capacity auctions. It would resurrect a PJM proposal that won only 45% support...

At least 29 major companies are incorporating a carbon price into their long-range planning, according to a report from the environmental data company CDP. “It’s climate change as a line item,” said CDP North America President Tom Carnac. Among the companies identified are American Electric Power and Duke Energy as...

PJM generators told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week that it should go beyond PJM’s qualification rules for demand response providers — with some proposing that planned DR resources be banned from the capacity market altogether. Seven generators and two generator trade groups filed comments last week following a...

Coal plant retirements will boost PJM on-peak energy prices by $3 to $4/MWh — and as much as $11/MWh if gas prices increase — according to a study released last week by The Brattle Group. (Source: The Brattle Group) The analysis -- which evaluates the “feedback” effects from coal plant...

Senate Democrats’ move last week to abolish the filibuster for judicial nominees clears the way for President Obama to fill vacancies on the appellate court that frequently reviews federal energy and environmental policy. Meade and Prettyman Courthouse (Source: DC Circuit) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...