Can single-state transmission projects like California's Tehachapi and Texas’ CREZ serve as models for offshore wind on the East Coast?

Efficient development of offshore wind transmission requires changes to planning, interconnection and cost allocation procedures.

A summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the PJM Markets and Reliability and Members committees on Oct. 29, 2020.

FERC accepted PJM’s proposed Tariff revisions on fast-start pricing to resolve inaccuracy and dispatch misalignment issues.

FERC approved most of PJM’s compliance filing on its expanded MOPR while reversing its position on state-directed default service auctions.

FERC reversed course and said MISO, SPP and PJM don’t have to rely on eachother’s dispatch assumptions to carry out an affected-system study.

FERC invited states to introduce carbon pricing in wholesale markets but said it had no authority to initiate such programs itself.

Generation developer Competitive Power Ventures is being sold to Tel Aviv-based OPC Energy and Israeli institutional investors.

PJM's proposed “quick-fix” manual revision sparked a discussion on lingering pseudo-tie issues.

PJM stakeholders endorsed an installed reserve margin of 14.4%, down from 14.8% in 2019, along with new winter weekly reserve targets.