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By William Opalka BOSTON — New England stakeholders are considering a future market design that could include a price on carbon and a two-tiered capacity market to accommodate state clean energy procurement. Gordon © RTO Insider Raab Associates’ 151st New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable on Friday discussed the New England...

RENSSELAER, N.Y. — The NYISO Reliability Needs Assessment for 2017-2026 identified two transmission security needs beginning next year. The assessment, which was approved by the Management Committee on Wednesday, identified the risk of thermal overloads on New York State Electric and Gas’ Oakdale 345/115-kV transformer in the Binghamton area and...

SAN DIEGO — Transmission industry owners, operators, generators, regulators, financiers and other key players from the Western U.S. attended Infocast’s 8th annual Transmission Summit West last week. They discussed the strategic, regulatory, investment and technology issues facing the industry. Western Regionalization Crowley © RTO Insider CAISO’s Stacy Crowley, vice president...

By Robert Mullin FERC rejected for a second time Arizona Public Service’s proposed rules over how external resources can use dynamic scheduling to participate in the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM). The commission ruled that APS’ tariff changes failed to comply with an April 29 directive to “clarify that dynamically...

By Robert Mullin CAISO's Board of Governors has approved a proposal to extend most of the temporary Tariff provisions the ISO implemented in June in response to natural gas pipeline restrictions stemming from the closure of the Aliso Canyon storage facility. The ISO will now seek expedited approval from FERC...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — Obama administration lawyers squared off with opponents of the Clean Power Plan last week, as oral arguments scheduled for less than four hours stretched over seven. We won’t know for months how those whose opinions count — 10 judges of the D.C. Circuit Court...

Jones © RTO Insider NYISO CEO Brad Jones said he is not convinced by any argument that the DER Roadmap pits the strength of a large grid against the resiliency of a small grid, as the system needs both to be robust. “Our goal is to find a way to...

By Robert Mullin SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Optimizing distributed energy resources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions cost effectively will require improved forecasting and the elimination of regulatory silos, speakers told Infocast’s California Distributed Energy Summit last week. Skala © RTO Insider Margie Gardner, executive director of the California Energy Efficiency...

By Rory D. Sweeney Less than half of PJM stakeholders considering the addition of a seasonal capacity product favor a change in the current rules. Only 48% of members who voted in the Seasonal Capacity Resources Senior Task Force poll last week favored any change, while 52% chose the status...

By William Opalka ALBANY, N.Y. — California’s challenge in integrating large amounts of renewable generation is illustrated by its famous “duck curve” graph. For New York, the future looks more like a platypus. Mukerji © RTO Insider That’s how Rana Mukerji, NYISO’s senior vice president of market structures, described the...