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By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — Four Ph.Ds. joined in a tag-team debate last week on the virtues of scarcity pricing versus capacity markets in a panel discussion-cum-economics seminar at the Energy Bar Association’s Annual Meeting. Hogan © RTO Insider It’s unlikely any of the combatants, who have often sparred...

By William Opalka NYISO has identified 10 proposed transmission projects as finalists to relieve congestion in western New York. The ISO issued a report last week in response to a 2015 New York Public Service Commission order that said relieving transmission congestion in the Buffalo area would produce environmental and...

About 43% of the nation’s 2,758 electric power generation “establishments” are renewable sites, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns report. More than half of the renewable locations are in the 10 states in green. However, only 13% of the electricity produced in the U.S. during 2015 came...

By Amanda Durish Cook INDIANAPOLIS — FERC last week accepted a generation interconnection agreement between MISO and the first utility-scale battery storage project in the footprint. The commission approved a GIA for Indianapolis Power & Light’s Harding Street Station Battery Energy Storage System, which is planned to go online this...

CO2 Allowance Sale Raises $68.3 Million The nine Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states that participated in the 32nd Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative auction of carbon dioxide allowances on Wednesday sold more than 15 million at a clearing price of $4.53. Bids for an allowance, which allows for the emission of one...

By Robert Mullin FERC on Wednesday approved CAISO’s plan to temporarily alter its market rules and operations in response to natural gas pipeline restrictions stemming from the closure of the Aliso Canyon storage facility (ER16-1649). The grid operator last month sought expedited approval for the Tariff changes, designed to ensure...

By Rory Sweeney Joining others in raising the alarm, NERC released a short-term special assessment last week that highlighted the reliability risks created by increased dependence on natural gas for electricity generation. Aliso Canyon Relief Well Source: Southern California Gas The report focused on the four regions with gas-fired generation...

The House of Representatives voted 241-178 to pass an amended version of the Senate’s Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016, tacking on drought relief aid for California, among other provisions. The passage means the House can now enter a conference with the Senate to reconcile the two versions. Upton “This...

The average real-time price of wholesale power in New England fell by more than a third last year, according to the 2015 Annual Markets Report by the Internal Market Monitor of ISO-NE. Prices dropped more than $22/MWh to $41, as the average price of natural gas fell 41% to $4.73/MMBtu...

Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability Committee on Thursday. Each item is listed by agenda number, description and projected time of discussion, followed by a summary of the issue and links to prior coverage. RTO Insider will be...