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By Rory D. Sweeney A few months ago in an ISO not that far away… Unrest grows along the PJM-NYISO border after the dismantling of the CON ED-PSEG WHEEL that for decades held sway over daily operations in the region. Expensive infrastructure replacements loom on the horizon, and stakeholders on...
By Robert Mullin CAISO last year paid out $47 million more to congestion revenue rights holders than it took in from its auctions, the ISO’s internal Market Monitor has found. That deficit — a persistent problem since the ISO instituted CRR auctions five years ago — could buttress the Monitor’s...
By Amanda Durish Cook The U.S. Supreme Court announced March 6 it would not hear a challenge seeking to reinstate the federal right of first refusal in transmission construction, letting an appellate ruling sustaining FERC Order 1000 stand. In April, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upheld...
By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — And the winner is ... LS Power, again. Warren Beatty wasn’t on hand, but PJM still received plenty of criticism Friday after planners reaffirmed — with some scoping changes — their previous selection of LS Power’s proposal for the contentious and long-awaited...
By Tom Kleckner Southwestern Public Service and SPP have asked Texas regulators to rule on whether Texas law includes a right of first refusal that overrides FERC Order 1000 (Docket No. 46901). At issue is who will build a 90-mile, 345-kV line from Potter County to SPS’ Tolk Generating Station...
By Rory D. Sweeney A financial trading firm accused PJM of unfairly discounting the interests of up-to-congestion traders in recent rule changes that it says would shift hundreds of millions in uplift charges to them from load. “PJM is required to act as a neutral body without giving priority to...
ERCOT announced it is terminating its reliability-must-run agreement for NRG Texas Power’s Greens Bayou Unit 5 in Houston, effective May 29. Greens Bayou The grid operator said studies using new criteria indicated the unit would not be needed for transmission system reliability after Exelon’s 1,148-MW Colorado Bend II Generating Station...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. New England’s needs for energy infrastructure, which have been debated in the courts and state legislatures, moved to ISO-NE’s Planning Advisory Committee last week as stakeholders began discussing the potential for major transmission projects under FERC Order 1000. Although EPA’s Clean Power Plan may be eliminated...
By Amanda Durish Cook Although MISO’s new queue design has just been implemented, RTO officials are continuing to look for improvement. “We are not done. Queue reform is a journey, not a destination,” MISO Vice President of System Planning and Seams Coordination Jennifer Curran told the System Planning Committee of...
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