CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will conduct three new separate, but related, studies this year that could identify a transmission solution for the RTO’s constrained interface between its North and South regions. Ghodsian | © RTO Insider The efforts include a market congestion planning study, which is part of MISO’s 2017...

By William Opalka FERC on Thursday denied a request to broaden a waiver providing relief to real-time emergency generation resources in ISO-NE (ER16-1904-001). Meade and Prettyman DC circuit courthouse | © RTO Insider The RTO had requested the waiver in response to a federal court ruling vacating an EPA rule...

By Rory D. Sweeney PJM’s Independent Market Monitor urged FERC to address longstanding concerns over demand response providers and others selling “paper capacity” to arbitrage price differences between the Base Residual and Incremental auctions. The Monitor made its request in a Dec. 30 filing that was accompanied by a report analyzing...

By Shelly Lyser and Joel Yu Summer resources in PJM’s market are approaching a tipping point. After April 2017, resources such as demand response and solar generation will effectively no longer be able to participate in PJM’s capacity market. As a result, they will no longer be able to earn...

By Rory D. Sweeney PJM stakeholders are discussing the best way to measure distributed energy resources in integrating them into the grid. The debate over metering in front of or behind the customer’s load was the focus of the Market Implementation Committee’s most recent special session on the topic Nov.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — More than 150 regulators, PJM officials and stakeholders gathered for last week’s annual meeting of the Organization of PJM States Inc. Here’s some of what we heard. Capacity Performance and Public Policy Kelly | © RTO Insider American Public Power Association CEO Sue Kelly, who appeared on...

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 Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO began working with stakeholders to refine its behind-the-meter generation procedures last week with a special meeting at which it dropped hints on changes it might seek. Shah © RTO Insider “We have a few ideas, but we want to hear from you,”...

RENSSELAER, N.Y. — The NYISO Reliability Needs Assessment for 2017-2026 identified two transmission security needs beginning next year. The assessment, which was approved by the Management Committee on Wednesday, identified the risk of thermal overloads on New York State Electric and Gas’ Oakdale 345/115-kV transformer in the Binghamton area and...