VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM has reduced its installed reserve margin (IRM), largely because of a drop in the equivalent forced outage rate (EFORd), stakeholders learned at last week’s Planning Committee meeting. (See “IRM Study Approved but Criticized for Lack of Winter Analysis,” PJM Markets and Reliability and Members Committees...

By Amanda Durish Cook Ameren Illinois may have hit a roadblock in its efforts to lower its energy efficiency targets prescribed under a new law. Illinois Commerce Commission Administrative Law Judge Jan Von Qualen on Tuesday issued a preliminary order (17-0311) denying the utility’s request to lower its energy efficiency...

WILMINGTON, Del. — PJM and its Independent Market Monitor remain at odds over whether price-based offer updates should be connected to cost-based offers and specified in each unit’s fuel-cost policy. Morelli | © RTO Insider At last week’s Markets and Reliability Committee meeting, PJM’s Lisa Morelli outlined the RTO’s planned...

By Michael Kuser FERC last week denied NRG Curtailment Solutions’ request for an exemption from NYISO penalties for nonperformance and invalid generator registrations on approximately 13% of its New York capacity obligations in May 2016 (ER17-834). NRG argued that uncertainty about EPA emissions regulations compromised its ability as a Special...

By Jason Fordney Frequent rule changes and an uncertain market structure are causing dissatisfaction among CAISO demand response providers and eroding participation in the programs, those providers say. Problems with data verification and settlement required the ISO to recalculate its 2016 DR results, and providers say there are other issues...

By Jason Fordney SACRAMENTO, Calif. — While CAISO has in recent years made strides in incorporating demand response into its wholesale market, it was forced to recalculate its 2016 DR settlements because of missing performance data, the grid operator said Tuesday. ISO representatives, DR companies, utilities and others industry participants...

PJM Tracking Pa. Virtual Transactions Tax Daugherty | © RTO Insider WILMINGTON, Del. — The Pennsylvania State Senate approved a tax on virtual transactions, moving the measure to the state’s House of Representatives, PJM CFO Suzanne Daugherty told the Markets and Reliability Committee on Thursday. Senators passed the tax on...

By Jason Fordney FOLSOM, Calif. — The CAISO Board of Governors last week approved a set of market rules designed to aid the integration of distributed energy resources and transmission-connected energy storage into the ISO’s markets. ISO staff closely consulted with market participants over the past year to develop the...

By Rory D. Sweeney Environmentalists last week urged FERC to decide whether states can control participation of energy efficiency resources (EERs) in RTOs, while state officials said the commission should take no action. The group Advanced Energy Economy petitioned FERC on June 2 to issue a declaratory order ruling that...

By Michael Kuser ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York Public Service Commission last week approved an indefinite extension for Consolidated Edison’s demand management program in New York City’s Brooklyn and Queens boroughs, which aims to defer an estimated $1 billion in local infrastructure spending. The commission’s July 13 order retains...