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By Robert Mullin SACRAMENTO, Calif. — While regionalization occupied center stage during the first day of CAISO’s annual Stakeholder Symposium, the second day’s panels took on an issue poised to be equally transformative for California’s electricity sector: the increased adoption of distributed energy resources. “To give you a sense of...

By Amanda Durish Cook American Electric Power has nearly completed the bidding process to sell more than 5,000 MW of merchant generation in Ohio and Indiana. AEP spokesperson Tammy Ridout said the company would make a decision before the end of the year about the future of the plants: the...

By William Opalka Five New York City-area legislators, including the chair of the State Assembly Committee on Energy, wrote to state regulators last week questioning the ratepayer-funded nuclear power plant subsidy and requesting disclosure of the operating costs of the affected plants. The New York Public Service Commission last month approved...

By Ted Caddell Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge is buying American pipeline company Spectra Energy in a $28 billion deal that will create North America’s largest energy infrastructure company. Enbridge, which specializes in pipelines moving crude oil, will be moving into the natural gas transportation business with the all-stock transaction. Enbridge...

MISO plans to file a waiver with FERC on its winter energy offer cap policy while it waits for the commission to work out whether a soft cap will replace the current $1,000/MWh hard cap, RTO officials told the Market Subcommittee last week. The waiver, to be filed Sept. 30,...

All storage resources wanting to qualify as capacity should register as behind-the-meter for the 2017/18 planning year, MISO said at last week’s two-day Resource Adequacy Subcommittee meeting. The AES Corporation partnered with Indianapolis Power and Light to open the first battery storage facility in MISO in June. Manager of Resource...

By William Opalka Numerous stakeholders have called for rehearing of New York’s Clean Energy Standard, raising objections over the subsidy for nuclear power, the elimination of support for some legacy renewable energy plants and the potential loss of renewable energy credits (REC) to adjoining states (15-E-0302). Most of the requests...

By Rory D. Sweeney The Clean Power Plan poses no threat to PJM’s reliability, but compliance costs are highly sensitive to gas prices and whether states go it alone or combine efforts with a regional approach, according to a study released by the RTO last week. If gas prices remain...

By Robert Mullin CAISO’s Board of Governors last week approved proposed Tariff revisions that will require new renewable resources be capable of providing grid-stability services as a condition for interconnecting with the ISO’s system. CAISO's Tariff changes will require new and upgraded renewable resources to be capable of providing reactive...

By Tom Kleckner ERCOT’s latest resource adequacy assessments indicate it has 25,000 to 30,000 MW of spare generating capacity for the fall and winter. ERCOT's control rom Source: ERCOT The Texas grid operator’s final Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy (SARA) for October and November includes more than 82,000 MW of...