By Rich Heidorn Jr. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and ranking member Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) unveiled their long-awaited energy legislation Thursday, incorporating some 50 bills previously approved by the panel. Murkowski said the 550-page American Energy Innovation Act "is our best chance...

By Michael Brooks and Michael Kuser WASHINGTON — FERC on Thursday narrowed the resources exempt from NYISO’s buyer-side market power mitigation (BSM) rules in southeastern New York, ordering the ISO to subject storage and demand response to a minimum offer floor in its capacity market. In doing so, the commission...

By Michael Kuser FERC on Wednesday denied CPower’s two waiver requests to allow its seven summer-only distributed solar demand capacity resources to participate in ISO-NE’s Forward Capacity Auction 14 and substitution auction held last week (ER20-458). FCA 14 cleared 33,956 MW of capacity for 2023/24 after five rounds of bidding.

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will soon seek FERC approval for a proposal to tighten load-modifying resource accreditation standards for capacity auctions even as some stakeholders complain that the plan is too restrictive. MISO’s proposal would base an LMR’s accreditation on the smaller of either its tested...

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...