By Michael Kuser New York regulators on Thursday approved measures that will sharply increase the state’s energy storage and efficiency targets. The rulings by the Public Service Commission will double New York’s existing 2025 storage goal to 3,000 MW by 2030 and require the state’s utilities to reduce building energy...

By Rory D. Sweeney Stakeholders discuss PJM issues at last week's meeting of the RTO's Markets and Reliability Committee. | © RTO Insider CAPS Concerned About FTR Changes WILMINGTON, Del. — Ten Consumer Advocates of the PJM States (CAPS) members signed onto a letter urging PJM’s Board of Managers to...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — Several MISO stakeholders are criticizing Tariff filings the RTO plans to make by the end of the year to free up an additional 5 to 10 GW of capacity in time for the spring outage season. The discord played out in meetings as...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO stakeholders are skeptical of a year-end Tariff filing intended to guarantee the RTO will have access to additional megawatts by spring through stricter outage rules and load-modifying resource (LMR) requirements. The RTO last month announced it will focus on three short-term fixes...

By Michael Kuser Possible Penalty for External Resources Failing in SRE NYISO is considering penalizing external resources that fail to perform when dispatched following a supplemental resource evaluation (SRE), Rana Mukerji, senior vice president for market structures, told the Business Issues Committee on Wednesday. The ISO presented the proposal —...

By Rory D. Sweeney CHICAGO — PJM CEO Andy Ott opened his remarks at last week’s annual meeting of the Organization of PJM States Inc. (OPSI) with a sports metaphor to describe the wide array of discussions that were to follow. “This is a big playing field,” he said. State...

By Tom Kleckner ERCOT Re-evaluating Costly CenterPoint 345-kV Project AUSTIN, Texas — ERCOT told the Texas Public Utility Commission last week that it will produce “higher quality estimates” for a major transmission project that raised the commissioners’ eyebrows with its escalating costs. The Texas PUC's Oct. 25 open meeting |...

By Rory D. Sweeney Summer-only Demand Response WILMINGTON, Del. — Stakeholders at last week’s PJM Markets & Reliability and Members committees meeting agreed to fast-track a proposal on demand response so it can potentially become effective in time for the deadlines related to the Base Residual Auction for the 2022/23...

By Michael Kuser SOUTHINGTON, Conn. — Battery storage, energy efficiency and offshore wind dominated the discussion at the Connecticut Power and Energy Society’s Future of Energy Conference on Oct. 24, along with the question: Who pays for all this progress? CPES Panel 1, from left, Katie Dykes, CT PURA; Anthony...

By Hudson Sangree California may be able to meet its goal of relying entirely on renewable and other zero-carbon electricity sources by 2045, but it’s going to be more difficult and more expensive without a wholesale market that includes multiple Western states, advocates of CAISO regionalization contend. “This is essentially...