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FERC on Tuesday approved a set of CAISO tariff revisions intended to prevent the kind of supply shortages that triggered rolling blackouts in California last summer during an extended Western heat wave (ER21-1536). The changes, the product of an expedited effort to head off shortages this summer, originate from the...

ISO-NE’s winter wholesale market costs totaled $2.33 billion, a 31% increase from the previous winter driven by higher energy costs, according to a quarterly markets report from the RTO’s Internal Market Monitor delivered to the NEPOOL Markets Committee last week. Average day-ahead and real-time hub LMPs increased to $51.30 and $51.66/MWh, respectively, which...

The California Energy Commission on Wednesday took a step toward making millions of households part of demand response efforts designed to avoid blackouts and bolster the state’s clean-energy goals. The CEC approved a $16 million grant to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to establish the California Flexible Load Research and...

FERC on Wednesday approved changes to ISO-NE’s tariff that eliminate capacity performance payments for energy efficiency resources (ER21-943). The revisions became effective Thursday. ISO-NE’s Pay-for-Performance (PfP) capacity market construct is meant to link revenues to resource performance during real-time operational reserve deficiencies via incentives to resources to provide real-time energy...

President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan has plenty for clean energy advocates of all stripes to like. For transmission advocates, the plan includes an investment tax credit aimed at building 20 GW of high voltage lines; for the solar industry, a 10-year extension of a direct-pay ITC for solar and...

The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday instituted a package of demand response programs to promote sharper reductions in electricity usage during times of strained supply and ordered additional procurement to increase CAISO’s planning reserve margin. The orders are intended to head off capacity shortages this summer and next like...

FERC on Thursday reversed its ruling giving state regulators the power to prevent demand response from participating in distributed energy resource aggregations (RM18-9-002) and signaled it may eliminate the opt-out requirements of Orders 719 and 719-A (RM21-14). The first order responded to issues raised on a request to rehear Order...

FERC on Thursday modified its Oct. 7 decision disqualifying New York’s Commercial System Distribution Load Relief Programs (CSRP) from an exemption under NYISO’s buyer-side mitigation (BSM) regime, agreeing with the complainants that the programs help companies avoid or defer costly distribution infrastructure upgrades and are not primarily designed to offset...

NYISO’s Business Issues Committee on Wednesday approved revisions to the Transmission and Dispatch Operations Manual that relate to generator fuel and emissions reporting (GFER) and are expected to become effective approximately two weeks after the Operating Committee approval on Feb. 11. "Based on stakeholder feedback, we have developed the functionality...

FERC on Wednesday allowed MISO to edit its tariff to clear up performance rules for load-modifying resources (LMRs). MISO’s ruleset now more clearly states that LMR performance is evaluated on an individual basis, not on the aggregate performance of a market participant’s entire portfolio (ER21-693). Market participants can operate several...