By Joel Yu and Christopher Hargett A $1,000/MWh energy market offer cap in organized wholesale electric markets regulated by FERC has served as an effective customer protection for more than 15 years.[1] Only once has an operational constraint resulted in legitimate energy offer spikes to levels near or above $1,000/MWh...

WASHINGTON — More than 100 transmission developers, consultants, RTO officials and utility executives attended Infocast’s 19th Annual Transmission Summit. Here’s some of what we heard. Competitive Transmission Bjurlin © RTO Insider Curt Bjurlin, an environmental services manager for Stantec, asked whether there are too many transmission developers chasing too few...

Paul Hibbard, vice president of The Analysis Group, expressed concern about New England’s ability to meet its carbon-reduction goals if nuclear plants continue to leave the generation fleet and are only replaced by natural gas. Entergy’s 680-MW Pilgrim plant may retire as early as next year. Hibbard © RTO Insider...

Connecticut sees itself as an energy technology and policy innovator, but much work remains to help it maintain its leadership position, speakers said at the annual Connecticut Power and Energy Society’s Energy, Environment and Development Conference last week. Dan Malloy © RTO Insider Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said he is...

By William Opalka NEWTON, Mass. — Large hydropower projects shunned by New England’s renewable portfolio standards are elbowing their way into the clean energy conversation, speakers at the 13th Northeast Energy and Commerce Association Conference on Renewable Energy said Thursday. Daniel-Johnson Dam (formerly known as Manic-5) Generating Station Hydropower projects...

The Gulf Coast Power Association (GCPA) held its MISO South Regional Conference in New Orleans Feb. 18. Here's a sampling of what we heard: [metaslider id="102404"]...

By Aaron Tinjum There were a number of major energy developments in 2015, including historically low oil prices, record levels of natural gas in storage, major policy and regulatory changes, and a groundbreaking international climate agreement. We’ve assembled some of the most telling energy statistics to help highlight some of...

What is an RTO? In a 2007 article in the Energy Law Journal, Michael H. Dworkin and Rachel Aslin Goldwasser gave perhaps the definitive answer, describing RTOs as “larger than states but smaller than nations, [taking] a form that is between government and business, thus creating serious accountability problems.” Dworkin...

ISO-NE and the New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) bar the public and the press from virtually all of their stakeholder meetings. They are the only one of the seven regional electric grid operators in the U.S. to do so. New England is unique in its hybrid structure. NEPOOL, created in...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. It was about a year ago that RTO Insider began expanding its coverage beyond PJM to the other ISOs and RTOs in the Eastern Interconnection. We now have reporters based in PJM, SPP, MISO and New England (covering New York and ISO-NE) as well as Washington.