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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it wants Tennessee Valley Authority managers to outline how they would respond to safety concerns voiced by the operations staff at the Watts Bar nuclear generating station after inspectors found some employees “did not feel free to raise safety concerns.” “It is extremely important that...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. FERC last week gave final approval to a NERC reliability standard on protective relays and a preliminary endorsement to rules that would ensure small generators are able to stay connected to the grid during abnormal frequency and voltage events. NERC standard PRC-026-1 is intended to ensure...

By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — On-peak day-ahead electricity prices in the U.S. were down 27 to 35% in 2015 compared to 2014 largely because of cheap natural gas, FERC staff said in its State of the Markets presentation Thursday. LMPs in New York hit a 15-year low. Gas prices fell...

FERC last week gave the go-ahead for American Transmission Co. and Wisconsin Power & Light to swap a combined $830,000 worth of assets (EC16-61). ATC Substation (Source: ATC) Under the agreement, WPL will acquire five ATC substations valued at $458,820 in exchange for $370,863 in transmission-related equipment, which include a...

By Robert Mullin CAISO has asked FERC to approve a new Tariff provision that would enable rooftop solar and other small distributed energy resources (DER) to participate in California’s energy and ancillary services markets (ER16-1085). The rule changes create an “initial framework” to extend market participation to DER smaller than...

Connecticut sees itself as an energy technology and policy innovator, but much work remains to help it maintain its leadership position, speakers said at the annual Connecticut Power and Energy Society’s Energy, Environment and Development Conference last week. Dan Malloy © RTO Insider Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said he is...

By William Opalka CROMWELL, Conn. — Requests for proposals for the next rounds of multistate clean energy, efficiency and storage procurement were released on Wednesday. Katie Scharf-Dykes © RTO Insider The RFPs were for resources from 2 to 20 MW as well as energy efficiency and energy storage, according to...

Agencies Suspend Work on State CPP Compliance The Department of Environmental Quality and the Public Service Commission announced they are halting an effort to draft a compliance plan for EPA’s Clean Power Plan as a result of last month’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to stay its implementation. The PSC’s executive director,...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO could have a limited set of market rules for energy storage as early as 2017, RTO officials told the Market Subcommittee last week. AES’ 20-MW energy storage array in Indianapolis, expected to go into operation in June, will be the first utility-level battery energy storage...

Indianapolis Power & Light’s Harding Street power plant, one of Indiana's largest, will kick its coal habit completely by spring. The company announced a $70 million investment to switch the plant to natural gas in 2014, and the conversion is expected to be complete in April, subject to approval by...