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Riverside County Looks to Create Power Supplier Riverside County officials are advancing a plan to create an alternative retail electricity supplier that would supplant Southern California Edison in unincorporated areas of the county. The officials say that the community choice aggregator, which would purchase power directly from producers, would allow...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — A reliability analysis identified no adverse impacts on the PJM system from closing the 1,819-MW Quad Cities nuclear plant, which Exelon plans to deactivate on June 1, 2018. Exelon announced the closure in June after failing to convince Illinois legislators to act on a bill that...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Regulators from Connecticut and New Jersey last week urged their colleagues to join them in developing cybersecurity rules for electric distribution companies. House © RTO Insider “Get in motion. Get started,” Arthur House, chairman of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, told the National...

By Ted Caddell and Rich Heidorn Jr. NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Exelon’s Constellation Energy Resources unit is buying Consolidated Edison’s retail energy business as it continues its efforts to hedge against falling wholesale power prices. Constellation’s purchase of the retail division of ConEdison Solutions will give it another 560,000 residential, commercial...

By Rory D. Sweeney Preparing for next year’s termination of the Con Ed-PSEG “wheel,” PJM is using a three-pronged approach to coordinate stakeholder efforts through its Operating, Markets Implementation and Planning committees. Each committee received updates last week on Consolidated Edison’s decision not to renew the agreement, under which NYISO...

The Delaware General Assembly has passed a resolution opposing PJM’s cost allocation for the Artificial Island project and creating a seven-member Cost Equity Committee to follow the issue through a planned rehearing at FERC. Senate Concurrent Resolution 90 takes the place of a resolution approved by the state’s House of...

By William Opalka NEW YORK — Whether the view is from PJM, which sits atop the Utica and Marcellus shale gas formations, or ISO-NE, at the “end of the pipeline,” the so-called “dash to gas” shows no sign of abating, speakers said Friday at the Energy Bar Association Northeast Chapter’s...

By Suzanne Herel FERC is taking another look at its April orders approving the cost allocations for a stability fix for New Jersey’s Artificial Island nuclear complex and an upgrade of the Bergen-Linden Corridor. The commission issued orders June 21 granting rehearing — a technical step to allow it more...

NEW YORK — Scott Weiner, the New York Public Service Commission’s deputy for markets and innovation, discussed the state’s Reforming the Energy Vision initiative. Weiner © RTO Insider “REV distinguishes itself not by its specific proposals but by its comprehensiveness. If you take a look at the specific components of...

Del Mar Releases Climate Action Plan Del Mar became the second city in San Diego County — after San Diego — to announce an objective of moving to 100% renewable energy by 2035. That goal is part of a larger climate action plan to reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions. The...