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By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will continue its efforts to improve gas-electric coordination in 2017, revealing a plan for the year that includes more data sharing, modeling and outreach. The top 2017 goals include disclosing generators’ hourly gas usage profiles to gas system operators and improving modeling...

CARMEL, Ind. — MISO has come up with two possible responses to its Independent Market Monitor’s suggestion to apply its 50-MW physical withholding threshold to affiliated market participants collectively, rather than individually. MISO told the Resource Adequacy Subcommittee on Nov. 30 that the withholding threshold should either use allocations based...

BOSTON — New England appears poised to withstand another winter of tight natural gas supplies, an ISO-NE official told the RTO’s Consumer Liaison Group meeting on Thursday. Other speakers debated whether states’ renewable portfolio standards are demanding enough to meet climate goals. George | © RTO Insider Anne George, ISO-NE...

By William Opalka The New York environmental group Hudson River Sloop Clearwater sued New York regulators on Wednesday over their subsidies for upstate nuclear power plants. Manna Jo Greene | Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Inc. Clearwater wants the court to vacate the “Tier 3” requirement included in the state’s Clean...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — Some wind generators appear to be deliberately over-forecasting their output to inflate their revenues, according to MISO Independent Market Monitor David Patton, who called for rule changes to discourage gaming. Patton said wind units on average produced 146 MW less than their MISO...

By Rory D. Sweeney and Rich Heidorn Jr. Illinois legislators on Thursday approved a bill to keep Exelon’s Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear plants operating for another decade. The “Future Energy Jobs Bill” was approved by the state Senate by a 32-18 vote, an hour after clearing the House 63-38...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. FERC rejected Dominion Resources’ request to recover almost $400,000 in uncompensated costs incurred when it ran four dual-fuel units on fuel oil rather than cheaper natural gas in June. | Matcor The commission’s Nov. 30 order said Dominion’s Virginia Electric and Power Co. is not entitled...

FERC has granted MISO a waiver of its $1,000/MWh offer cap for winter, providing the RTO relief before the commission’s pre-Thanksgiving order that doubled the hard offer cap for all grid operators takes effect. FERC’s Nov. 17 ruling setting the offer cap for day-ahead and real-time markets to $2,000/MWh in...

By Rory D. Sweeney PJM stakeholders are discussing the best way to measure distributed energy resources in integrating them into the grid. The debate over metering in front of or behind the customer’s load was the focus of the Market Implementation Committee’s most recent special session on the topic Nov.

By Rory D. Sweeney, Ted Caddell and Amanda Durish Cook Illinois officials moved closer to a deal to save Exelon’s Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear plants as legislation cleared a House committee and the company reportedly reached agreement with Gov. Bruce Rauner on changes to reduce the bill’s cost. The...