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By Amanda Durish Cook A group of Upper Peninsula electric users plans to ask FERC to investigate Wisconsin Electric Power Co. for allegedly falsifying records to increase its revenues under the Presque Isle power plant system support resource agreement. “The numbers presented by MISO and WEPCo going back to 2014...

By Amanda Durish Cook INDIANAPOLIS — MISO used its first-ever Market Symposium last week to ask industry leaders how a low-carbon environment will influence the electricity market. Although the discussions produced few specific suggestions on what new rules should be proposed, there was wide agreement that the markets need to...

By Michael Brooks and William Opalka Massachusetts’ highest court Wednesday struck down regulators’ plan to allow electric distribution companies to charge ratepayers for additional natural gas pipeline capacity, concluding that the legislature intended for electricity and gas utilities to be regulated separately (SJC-12051). The Department of Public Utilities issued the...

By Rory D. Sweeney Stakeholders continue to react coolly to PJM’s proposed rules for generator fuel-cost policies, spending two and a half hours expressing their concerns at last week’s Market Implementation Committee meeting. PJM has held three meetings in the past three weeks to explain the policy to stakeholders, several...

By Suzanne Herel PJM’s wholesale energy, capacity and regulation markets were competitive for the first half of the year, but there is room for improvement, according to the second quarter State of the Market Report by Monitoring Analytics. The Independent Market Monitor made new recommendations for the energy, capacity and...

By Robert Mullin Pacific Gas and Electric filed with California regulators last week to shut down the state’s last remaining nuclear power plant by the end of 2025. The application also asks the state Public Utilities Commission to approve a joint proposal that the utility forged with environmental, labor and...

By Tom Kleckner With its electricity demand projected to grow 3 to 4% annually, the expected retirement of 10 to 15 GW of fossil plants, a commitment to add 1 GW of wind power annually and off-peak prices as high as $65/MWh, Mexico presents an appealing target to generation developers.

SPP says it is on track to go live as scheduled with the new gas-day timeline in October and enhanced combined cycle (ECC) software in March. Testing on SPP’s gas-day system began Aug. 1 and concludes Aug. 29. The first operating day will be Oct. 1, when participants must submit...

By Amanda Durish Cook Concerned about the impact of plant retirements in the state, Michigan officials have asked MISO to conduct a reliability analysis that assumes simultaneous outages at the Palisades and Fermi 2 nuclear plants. Fermi 2 Nuclear Plant Source: DTE Energy Entergy’s Palisades plant on Lake Michigan and...

MISO wants to know how it can improve frequency response under an evolving generation fleet and is asking for stakeholder involvement to draft an issues statement. “This isn’t a new topic. The industry has been grappling with the issue for years,” said Durgesh Manjure, MISO's manager of resource adequacy coordination.