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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’...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — “Pernicious subsidy” or “rough justice”? Audience members got to decide for themselves how to characterize net metering for rooftop solar generation during a debate at the Energy Bar Association’s Mid-Year Energy Forum last week. Richard L. Roberts, head of the electric group at Steptoe...

SPP stakeholders have recommended the RTO’s leadership reject $114 million in remaining waiver requests for Z2 transmission upgrades. The Z2 Task Force voted 8-4 Friday with four abstentions to “follow the Tariff” and reject all Group B and C waivers. SPP has calculated that Group B transmission customers (those that...

ERCOT is asking consumers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley region to limit or reduce their electricity use where possible through Tuesday, especially during the 3-7 p.m. peak demand hours. ERCOT control room Source: ERCOT “With some unplanned electric generation outages, combined with high temperatures in the region, we expect...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO began working with stakeholders to refine its behind-the-meter generation procedures last week with a special meeting at which it dropped hints on changes it might seek. Shah © RTO Insider “We have a few ideas, but we want to hear from you,”...