LS Power
The Markets and Reliability Committee rejected three proposals to revise aspects of PJM’s effective load-carrying capability accreditation model.
FERC partly granted a complaint from LS Power challenging the calculation of opportunity cost adders, requiring operating agreement revisions.
The Department of the Interior is moving to cancel the Lava Ridge Wind Project, a gigawatt-scale wind farm proposed on thousands of acres of federal land in Idaho.
EPA is proposing to rescind its 2009 endangerment finding, which qualifies greenhouse gases as pollutants and has been used by Democratic presidential administrations to regulate emissions from power plants and other sources.
The 10 wind farms span seven states, provide power to more than 15 off-takers, and have a gross nameplate capacity of 1.7 GW.
Key challenges in the review are tightening supply and demand, the uncertain cost of new capacity and accounting for changes PJM has made to how it identifies reliability risks and determines the capacity value for different resource types.
PJM's Independent Market Monitor asked FERC to impose behavioral constraints on NRG Energy's proposed purchase of power plants and demand response from LS Power.
NRG Energy told FERC its purchase of generation and the CPower subsidiary from LS Power will not impact competition, despite some overlap in assets in New York and PJM.
Construction began on the Utah terminal of the 732-mile TransWest Express transmission line, a project designed to carry Wyoming wind energy to the Southwest.
PJM’s Members Committee voted not to reelect two incumbent members of the RTO’s Board of Managers: Chair Mark Takahashi and Terry Blackwell.
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