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March 24, 2026

Capacity Market

FERC Reaffirms Rejection of SPP Withholding Test
FERC denied the SPP Market Monitoring Unit’s request for rehearing of a December 2014 order that rejected the Monitor’s use of a market-impact test to track physical withholding.
What’s Next for Exelon’s Nukes, AEP Merchant Fleet?

PJM generators — such as Exelon, Dynegy, NRG and PSEG — will earn $10.9 billion from this year’s capacity auction in the first test of the RTO’s new Capacity Performance requirements.

UPDATE: PJM Capacity Prices Up 37% to $165/MW-day
PJM's first capacity auction under its new no-excuses policy saw prices rise 37% to $164.77/MW-day in most of the RTO.
PJM Prices Down 31% from Record-Breaking 2014
PJM energy market prices were down almost 40% in the first half of 2015 compared with 2014, while capacity and transmission service charges rose.
PJM Opens Capacity Auction Under New Rules
PJM's Base Residual Auction for 2018/19 will be the first under the new Capacity Performance rules approved by FERC in June.
ISO-NE: Use New Curve in Reconfiguration Auctions
ISO-NE and the NEPOOL Participants Committee want to begin using the RTO’s system-wide sloped demand curve in their Annual Reconfiguration Auctions.
PJM Market Implementation Committee Briefs
A roundup of news from the PJM Market Implementation Committee on Aug. 12, 2015.
Dynegy: Complaints about MISO Auction ‘Fatal’
Dynegy told FERC it should reject complaints over its bidding in MISO’s capacity auction last April, saying the challenges suffer from a “fatal” procedural flaw.
FERC Considering Rehearing of PJM’s Capacity Performance Plan
FERC said it needed more time to consider rehearing requests of its June 9 order largely approving PJM’s Capacity Performance plan.
Fourth Time the Charm? Brayton Point Union Again Challenges ISO-NE Auction
The union representing workers at a Massachusetts power plant slated for closure is again asking federal regulators to reconsider its protest of ISO-NE capacity auction results.

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