An August energy emergency alert that had SPP one contingency away from shedding load has renewed calls for scarcity pricing to ensure adequate reserves.

The landmark law that deregulated ERCOT’s market and paved the way for electric competition provided the theme for this year’s GCPA fall conference.

Infocast’s Texas Renewable Energy Summit brought in developers, corporate off-takers, cities, municipalities, cooperatives and the financing community.

SPP saw an increase in price spikes and overall prices during October and November thanks to above-normal scarcity pricing.

FERC rejected a request by the New England States Committee on Electricity to broaden the commission’s ruling raising ISO-NE’s peak energy rent adjustment.

The PJM Board of Managers directed staff to identify changes to improve reserve market pricing that can be implemented for next winter.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected NEPGA's challenge to FERC orders on scarcity prices, saying the commission had properly considered its complaints.

FERC approved SPP’s operating reserves proposal but said the RTO should respond to criticism about scarcity pricing avoidance.

FERC accepted SPP’s proposed Tariff revisions related to shortage pricing.

ERCOT stakeholders jammed the Public Utility Commission of Texas' (PUCT's) hearing room for the first of several discussions on price-formation issues.