MISO and ISO-NE said they have sufficient resources to meet summer demand but warned that their reserve margins are shrinking due to plant retirements.
This week's state briefs include news on Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota and Pennsylvania.
SPP officials and market participants last week celebrated the first year of its Integrated Marketplace, boasting of its on-time, under-budget delivery.
This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of the Interior and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
This week's company briefs include news on Tesla, Dominion, Exelon, Duke, Southern Co., Mississippi Power, FirstEnergy and PPL.
PJM made it through the winter without having to invoke a temporary cost-based energy offer cap of $1,800/MWh, the Independent Market Monitor reported.
PJM will seek to recover $15 million in lost opportunity costs erroneously paid to generators that were on forced outages and not eligible for the credits.
NYISO can force idled generators to allow use of their interconnections for reliability purposes, FERC ruled last week, saying that such actions do not constitute an unconstitutional “taking” under the Fifth Amendment.
Distributed resources are receiving too much blame for the utility industry’s problems, current and former regulators said at the Infocast Grid Transformation Summit 2015.
FERC fined Maxim Power $5 million and employee Kyle Mitton was fined $50,000 for overcharging ISO-NE.