Four Ph.Ds. joined in a tag-team debate on the virtues of scarcity pricing versus capacity markets in a panel discussion cum economics seminar at the Energy Bar Association’s Annual Meeting.
A summary of issues discussed and measures approved by the PJM Planning Committee and Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee on June 9, 2016.
The MISO-OMS 2016 Survey found that plant retirements could cause a generation shortfall as early as 2018 in MISO, 2 years earlier than previously expected.
Cheap natural gas pushed ERCOT's energy costs and congestion revenue to record lows in 2015, the IMM reported in his state of the market report.
Constitution Pipeline denied allegations made by the New York attorney general that it encouraged illegal tree cutting by landowners in defiance of a FERC prohibition.
MISO will not yield on a planned July filing for capacity auction design changes, while a filing to add seasonal and locational constructs will be delayed.
This week's company briefs include news on Dynegy, NextEra, DTE Energy, Alliant, Broadwind, PG&E, and others.
The SPP Capacity Margin Task Force conducted its penultimate meeting as it continues to set up the stakeholder group that will replace it.
CAISO is nearing completion of a cost allocation plan describing how to allocate building and operating transmission costs in an expanded balancing area.
ERCOT said it has executed a reliability-must-run agreement to keep NRG's Greens Bayou 371-MW natural gas-fired generator available through September.
