By Rich Heidorn Jr. FERC on Thursday rejected a PJM proposal to reduce load-serving entities' savings from price-responsive demand (PRD) programs (ER19-1012). PJM had proposed changing the calculation of the "nominal PRD value," used for determining the PRD credit, from the reduction in load during the RTO’s annual peak to...

By Christen Smith Decarbonizing the building sector remains a top priority if Northeast states want to reach their climate targets by 2050, energy experts and regulators said last week. But state policy efforts have, so far, fallen short of long-term emissions-curbing targets. "We’ve achieved 17% of where we need to...

By Christen Smith Ohio lawmakers are being asked to trade ratepayer-funded renewable energy mandates for the jobs and carbon-free energy that would come from the continued operation of FirstEnergy Solutions’ Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear plants. House Bill 6, titled the Clean Air Act, has confounded fossil fuel proponents and environmental...

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. — More than 150 people attended ISO-NE’s first-ever Grid Transformation Day last week to hear about the speed of the change overtaking the power industry — and the breadth of resources needed to accommodate it. Here’s some of what we heard. Dealing with Outdated Data Stephen Rourke, ISO-NE...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM’s existing Market Efficiency Process Enhancement Task Force will tackle concerns raised by the Independent Market Monitor over its benefit-cost analyses for transmission projects. PJM Director of Infrastructure Planning Sue Glatz told the Planning Committee on Thursday that staff agreed the issues raised in the Monitor’s...

By Michael Kuser GROTON, Conn. — As Northeast states continue to expand their clean energy goals, the region faces the prospect that multiple overlapping public policies will create an oversupply of renewable resources at certain periods. CPES and NECA hosted the 2019 New England Energy Conference and Exposition in Groton,...

By Robert Mullin Call it a false alarm. In rejecting a request for a declaratory order on Tuesday, FERC provided the petitioners exactly what they were seeking: assurance that ISO-NE will not alter its energy efficiency performance standards outside the stakeholder process. In February, Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) and the...

By Michael Kuser A draft version of NYISO’s annual load and capacity forecast shows electric vehicle usage driving a 66% increase in New York’s projected baseline peak demand growth rate over the next 20 years. Much of that growth would occur in the second half of the study period, according...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — FERC on Friday granted MISO permission to implement the remaining two proposals in its three-part short-term resource availability and need project. Facing baseload generation retirements, more frequent emergencies and diminishing capacity margins, MISO had proposed stricter outage scheduling rules and annual real power...

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. — Ten transmission upgrades have been placed in service in New England since October, ISO-NE transmission planning engineer Jon Breard told the RTO’s Planning Advisory Committee on Thursday during a Regional System Plan (RSP) project list update. Another 32 asset condition projects have been completed since then, most...