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By William Opalka WESTBOROUGH, Mass. — ISO-NE’s latest briefing on its ongoing economic study focused on the shortfall of energy market revenues, prospects for storage and the ability to meet increased renewable portfolio standards. Planners told the Planning Advisory Committee on Wednesday that uplift and capacity revenues will become increasingly...

By Robert Mullin FERC last week eliminated the must-offer obligation in effect throughout the Western Electricity Coordinating Council region since the tail end of the California energy crisis of 2000-2001. “In light of the passage of time and significant improvements to California’s wholesale electricity markets over that time, the must-offer...

By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — Grid operators assured FERC last week they are confident in their ability to maintain reliability this winter, reporting improvements in gas-electric coordination and monitoring technology. ISO-NE is making no promises beyond this winter, however, citing concerns over generation retirements and setbacks to efforts to improve...

By Robert Mullin CAISO is seeking stakeholder input on how to respond to a solar eclipse that will significantly curtail output from California’s growing solar generation portfolio next August. “It will not be a total eclipse [in California], but it will affect what solar production we have in California,” Jim...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. and Rory D. Sweeney Adam Keech, PJM | © RTO Insider COLUMBUS, Ohio – PJM officials said Wednesday they will seek FERC approval of the RTO’s seasonal capacity proposal despite a lack of stakeholder consensus. The proposal, which would relax the current prohibition on seasonal resources aggregating across locational deliverability...

By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM is considering giving demand response participants injection rights in its effort to expand distributed energy resources’ access to wholesale markets. The effort is being overseen through special Markets and Reliability Committee sessions that began in April. At the most recent session...

By William Opalka ALBANY, N.Y. — New York regulators on Thursday refined their rules on how municipalities can aggregate customers to purchase gas and electricity and rejected a request that the program abandon its opt-out structure (14-M-0224). | Wikipedia The New York Public Service Commission’s Community Choice Aggregation program is...

By Robert Mullin A new research report indicates that the belly of CAISO’s “duck curve” is deepening more quickly than originally expected, with its effects increasingly spread across the year — and not just on the typical spring day depicted by the graph. The report from consulting firm ScottMadden also...

By Ted Caddell Ohio regulators Wednesday rejected FirstEnergy’s request for an annual $558 million rider for eight years, voting instead to give the company $204 million annually for only three years. FirstEnergy, whose request would have totaled $4.46 billion, will receive $612 million (nominal dollars) under the unanimous decision by the...

By William Opalka Consumer advocate Public Citizen on Tuesday protested Energy’s proposed sale of the James A. FitzPatrick nuclear plant to Exelon, saying the companies’ FERC application failed to include information about the state subsidy that makes the transaction possible (EC16-169). Public Citizen says omission of the subsidy makes the...