Transmission

RSS

Baltimore Gas and Electric will pay $170,530 to MISO members to end a dispute over cross-system congestion costs under a settlement approved by FERC last week. FERC’s Nov. 17 order settles a dispute between BGE and almost 30 MISO utilities relating to the cross-system congestion costs known as Seams Elimination...

At FERC’s urging, MISO is considering removing confidentiality around generators that notify it of their intent to suspend or retire. Shah | © RTO Insider “FERC recommended MISO should explore and work with stakeholders to see if we need to change the confidentially provisions,” explained Neil Shah, MISO adviser of...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — Tim Horger, manager of interregional coordination at PJM, said last week that MISO and PJM have agreed not to publicly talk about the issue of pseudo-tie congestion double-counting until a FERC complaint on the issue is resolved. Horger | © RTO Insider Some...

By Rory D. Sweeney FERC on Thursday approved a rate settlement for a transmission project that may never happen. The agreement settled a dispute over how much profit LS Power’s Northeast Transmission Development should receive for building transmission infrastructure across the Delaware River to address stability issues at New Jersey’s...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO will ask FERC to approve new rules on how it manages pseudo-ties next year, officials said during a Nov. 8 special conference call of the Reliability Subcommittee. The proposed rules would establish a pseudo-tie Business Practices Manual, an implementation process and a written agreement for...

By Amanda Durish Cook WASHINGTON — The opening panel of FERC’s technical conference on energy storage last week featured a discussion on whether storage can be a versatile transmission asset or will be limited to “niche applications.” Kormos | © RTO Insider Exelon Senior Vice President of Wholesale Markets and...

By Tom Kleckner SPP stakeholders are considering the use of incremental long-term congestion rights (ILTCRs) to help solve some of the complexity with the RTO’s Z2 crediting process, a contentious issue that dates back to 2008. Meeting in Kansas City last week, the Z2 Task Force spent considerable time discussing...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM has determined that it must keep a loop flow in place with NYISO when the Con Ed-PSEG “wheel” ends next year, but that by 2021 that “operational baseflow” will be reduced to zero. Presenting at the Market Implementation, Operating and Planning committees last week, PJM...

By William Opalka ALBANY, N.Y. — A coalition of environmental groups and clean energy developers on Thursday called for upgrades in New York’s transmission system at the Alliance for Clean Energy New York’s 10th Annual Conference. Reynolds | © RTO Insider “Today’s unique circumstances dictate that the rapid construction of...

By Robert Mullin The California Public Utilities Commission is protesting FERC’s decision to allow Pacific Gas and Electric to include a 50-basis-point ISO participation adder in its 2017 transmission rates proposal. The CPUC said that the commission’s ruling “ignores the need to demonstrate that an incentive must be ‘justified’ pursuant...