The Louisiana Public Service Commission abruptly pulled the plug on its long-awaited, statewide energy efficiency program weeks after selecting a contractor to measure savings.

FERC has ordered American Efficient to defend its energy efficiency programs in PJM and MISO or pay a $722 million penalty and return $253 million in profits to ratepayers.

State regulators, policymakers and utilities often argue that market failure justifies energy efficiency programs. Consultant Kenneth Costello disagrees.

The Independent Market Monitor has argued energy efficiency can’t participate as a capacity resource because the load reductions already are accounted for in PJM’s load forecast.

The Department of Energy aims to help cities and states reduce emissions with more than $240 million in grants to promote the adoption of building performance standards

The PJM Markets and Reliability Committee voted to eliminate energy efficiency from the capacity construct, adopting a proposal from the Monitor.

PJM stakeholders presented several proposals to revise how energy efficiency resources are measured and verified to the Market Implementation Committee.

PJM’s Market Implementation Committee endorsed by acclamation a proposal to add two energy market parameters for economic demand response.

PJM's Independent Market Monitor filed a complaint asking FERC to reject all energy efficiency offers into the RTO's capacity market, alleging none of them meet the Base Residual Auction participation requirements.