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By Michael Kuser The New York Public Service Commission on Thursday performed some heavy regulatory lifting intended to help the state achieve its ambitious clean energy goals, committing an additional $2 billion to energy efficiency and building-electrification programs. It also created an index renewable energy credit that pays for the...

CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will revisit its Tariff to better define how aggregators of retail customers (ARCs) participate as demand resources as more aggregators line up for market participation. FERC in 2012 approved MISO’s ARC participation model, which lays out how end-use customer groups can offer demand response into the...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO’s Reliability Subcommittee will next year examine whether the RTO’s footprint is suffering from an excess of load-modifying resources. Speaking during a conference call Thursday, Chair Bill SeDoris — who will again serve in that role in 2020 — said the subcommittee will...

The New England Power Pool Markets Committee continued its crammed schedule to complete the Energy Security Improvements (ESI) proposal at its expanded two-day meeting last week and entertained the possibility of adding a third day to its monthly meetings through March 2020. ISO-NE has four months to file a long-term...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. Advanced meters now represent more than half of the electric meters in service, but the growth of demand response has been choppy due to slow adoption of time-of-use rates, FERC reported Wednesday. The U.S. had 78.9 million advanced meters operational in 2017, 51.9% of the total...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM staff told the Operating Committee last week that questions still remain about why their load forecast veered so far off course during a two-day spell of hot weather across the region last month. Speaking at the committee’s Nov. 12 meeting, Rebecca Carroll, PJM’s director of...

In a two-day meeting last week, the New England Power Pool Markets Committee continued work on ISO-NE’s proposed Energy Security Improvements (ESI) proposal, with discussions on LNG supplies, market mitigation and a second demand curve. The RTO has five months to file a long-term fuel security mechanism under FERC’s second...

By Christen Smith VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — An unprecedented spell of hot weather across PJM earlier this month left stakeholders questioning whether the RTO’s operational decisions produced the unusual price signals some generators witnessed while complying with emergency load management instructions. Rebecca Carroll, PJM’s director of dispatch, told the Operating...

By Amanda Durish Cook Coastal regions are picking up steam in implementing energy efficiency, while areas in Middle America are either stalled or backsliding, according to the latest annual ranking of states’ individual measures. Massachusetts led the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s 13th annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard for...

CEO Search Continues VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Neil Smith, chairman of PJM’s search committee and a member of its Board of Managers, told the Markets and Reliability Committee on Thursday that he anticipates former CEO Andy Ott’s position will be filled by the end of fall. "We are focused on...