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AUSTIN, Texas — Acting on a request from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office, ERCOT has drafted a revision to its planning guide requiring energy developers to notify the Department of Defense of any projects near military installations. The planning guide revision request (PGRR 047) was unanimously approved by ERCOT’s Technical...

By Amanda Durish Cook Northern Indiana Public Service Co. said last week it may shut down one coal-fired plant and partially close another. Though nothing has been finalized, NIPSCO officials said they are considering closing the two-unit Bailly Generating Station on Lake Michigan as soon as mid-2018 and idling two...

By William Opalka Eversource Energy and National Grid have withdrawn their requests to bill electric ratepayers for natural gas capacity from the proposed Access Northeast pipeline project, bowing to a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The filings made Monday for their four electric distribution companies followed the court’s...

By Robert Mullin FERC last week approved rule changes to improve the ability of energy storage resources to participate in CAISO’s markets (ER16-1735). The changes will allow “non-generator resources” to submit their state-of-charge as a bid parameter in the day-ahead market and manage their own state-of-charge and energy limits for...

By Rory D.  Sweeney Acknowledging stakeholders’ criticism, PJM removed capacity-deficiency and administrative penalties it had proposed for its fuel-cost policy rules and instead offered a single formula-based one. The proposal was made in the compliance filing PJM submitted to FERC on Aug. 16 (ER16-372-002). The filing was supposed to focus...

By William Opalka Entergy and Exelon filed a petition with New York regulators Monday seeking approval of Exelon’s $110 million purchase of the James A. FitzPatrick nuclear plant (16-E-0472). Fitzpatrick Nuclear Plant Source: Entergy The companies asked the Public Service Commission to approve the acquisition by Nov. 18. The PSC...

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...