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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 Robert Mullin A new research report indicates that the belly of CAISO’s “duck curve” is deepening more quickly than originally expected, with its effects increasingly spread across the year — and not just on the typical spring day depicted by the graph. The report from consulting firm ScottMadden also...

By Ted Caddell Ohio regulators Wednesday rejected FirstEnergy’s request for an annual $558 million rider for eight years, voting instead to give the company $204 million annually for only three years. FirstEnergy, whose request would have totaled $4.46 billion, will receive $612 million (nominal dollars) under the unanimous decision by the...

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...

SPP’s Exit Study Task Force, formed to provide technical support and advice regarding Lubbock Power & Light’s move to ERCOT, conducted its first meeting last week. The Public Utility Commission of Texas asked SPP and ERCOT to work together to study the implications of LP&L’s plans to migrate 430 MW...

By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM has found a way to provide generators with the performance assessment hour alerts that owners requested, but it’s not going to be easy. The problem is how to get the PAH alerts from PJM’s emergency procedures channel to the Inter-Control Center...

By William Opalka New England generators say a rule meant to prevent withholding of generating resources unfairly cost them $100 million during an August heat wave (EL16-120). The New England Power Generators Association filed a complaint with FERC on Sept. 30, saying ISO-NE’s peak energy rent (PER) adjustment created “absurd”...

CARMEL, Ind. — MISO is canvassing feedback on two Independent Market Monitor recommendations that seek to improve the Planning Resource Auction. Manager of Resource Adequacy John Harmon said MISO agrees with the Monitor’s 2015 State of the Market recommendation to apply its 50-MW physical withholding threshold to affiliated market participants...

By William Opalka Massachusetts regulators have rejected fees National Grid sought to impose on small commercial and industrial customers that own distributed energy resources (15-155). In an order approved Sept. 30 that granted the utility a $101 million rate increase, the Department of Public Utilities rejected proposed monthly charges for...

PJM and NYISO released last week their joint whitepaper on replacing the Con Ed-PSEG “wheel,” which will end May 1. The paper outlines the grid operators’ joint proposal, which would create scheduled, fixed flows over the interconnections based on a predetermined protocol. (See Analysis Recommends Continuing Reduced Con Ed-PSEG ‘Wheel’...