Items Tagged with 'Competitive Auctions with Sponsored Policy Resources (CASPR)'

ISO-NE and NEPOOL kicked off a two-day meeting with a session strictly devoted to discussing removing the MOPR from the capacity market.

A panel during the quarterly meeting of ISO-NE's Consumer Liaison Group discussed the removal of the minimum offer price rule.

When it was his turn to ask a question during the opening panel of FERC’s technical conference on modernizing electricity market design in ISO-NE, Commissioner Mark Christie started with the part of his résumé that includes 17 years as a member of the Virginia State Corporation Commission. FERC Commissioner Mark...

PJM’s minimum offer price rule (MOPR) is living on borrowed time if the comments at FERC’s technical conference on capacity markets Tuesday are any guide (AD21-10). FERC Chair Richard Glick and PJM CEO Manu Asthana both said the MOPR is not "sustainable" because it is frustrating state decarbonization efforts. "We’re...

Tensions between New England states and ISO-NE came to a head last year when five governors issued a joint statement calling for reforms to the RTO to enable their efforts to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions. (See New England Governors Call for RTO Reform.) A few days later, the New England States...

More than 450 people tuned into Raab Associates’ 168th New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable last week to hear talk about clean energy and decarbonization, the implications of the November elections and the case for wholesale power market redesign. Here is some of what we heard during the event, hosted by...

FERC on Thursday defended its Competitive Auctions with Sponsored Policy Resources (CASPR) order, which permitted ISO-NE to create a two-stage capacity auction to accommodate state renewable energy procurements (ER18-619). The commission voted 2-1 along party lines, with Republicans James Danly, newly installed as chair, and Neil Chatterjee, recently demoted from...

New England stakeholders frustrated by states’ inability to meet their clean energy goals within ISO-NE’s markets considered last week whether a forward clean energy market (FCEM) might provide a solution. "I think it’s fair to say that the idea of a forward clean energy market … is one that seems...