Virginia legislators announced a bipartisan bill that would end the electric market monopoly in the state, allowing consumers to choose their electric provider and requiring distribution utilities to divest their generation. | Timmons Group
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GreenHat Claims Fund Opens After FERC OKs Settlement
January 6, 2020PJM sent members directions on how to file claims against the $5 million fund established in the GreenHat Energy settlement after FERC accepted the terms of the agreement. | PJM
Read MoreDominion Sees Green in Electrification
December 23, 2019Dominion Energy discussed the many ways it is decarbonizing and electrifying in order to stay competitive at Raab Associates’ Energy Policy Roundtable in the PJM Footprint. | © RTO Insider
Read More‘Every 10th of a Degree Matters’
December 23, 2019Princeton assistant professor Jesse Jenkins opened the Raab Roundtable in the PJM Footprint with a sobering look at the dramatic changes needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. | © RTO Insider
Read MoreFERC Extends PJM MOPR to State Subsidies
December 20, 2019FERC voted 2-1 Thursday to extend PJM’s MOPR to all new state-subsidized resources, saying it was needed to combat price suppression in the RTO’s capacity market. | © RTO Insider
Read MoreEIM Lands Xcel, 3 Other Colo. Utilities
December 18, 2019Xcel Energy, Black Hills Colorado Electric, Colorado Springs Utilities and Platte River Power Authority announced they will join CAISO’s EIM as soon as 2021. | State of Colorado
Read MoreNYISO Advances Change to Retirement Studies
December 13, 2019NYISO’s Business Issues Committee endorsed the ISO’s plan to replace its ad hoc generator retirement studies with quarterly “short-term” analyses. | Alliance Energy
Read MoreAdvanced Metering Tops 50% for First Time
December 12, 2019Advanced meters now represent more than half of the electric meters in service, but the growth of demand response has been choppy due to slow adoption of time-of-use rates, FERC reported Thursday. | FERC, Energy Information Administration, Institute for Electric Efficiency
Read MoreFERC OKs ISO-NE RFP Rules
December 12, 2019FERC approved Tariff revisions refining ISO-NE’s rules for conducting competitive transmission solicitations, a process that may be tested for the first time this month. | ISO-NE
Read MoreDC Circuit to Reconsider FERC Tolling Orders
December 5, 2019The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals indicated it will reconsider its precedent that allows FERC to issue “tolling” orders to indefinitely delay action on requests for rehearing. | Williams
Read MoreFERC OKs SCE Rate Settlements
December 5, 2019FERC approved a settlement reducing Southern California Edison’s 2018 transmission rates and a partial settlement on the utility’s 2019 request for an ROE increase to reflect wildfire risks. | U.S. Forest Service
Read MorePG&E Judge Weighs Insurers’ Settlement
December 5, 2019Attorneys for PG&E urged U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali to quickly approve the utility’s proposed $11 billion settlement with insurance companies and hedge funds. | © RTO Insider
Read MoreFormer Steel Mill Eyes OSW Future
December 3, 2019Danish wind developer Orsted is building a staging area for its 120-MW Skipjack offshore wind farm amid the rubble of what was the world’s largest iron and steel mill. Sparrows Point is one of four ports being developed for OSW on the East Coast, with nine others under consideration. | © RTO Insider
Read MoreFERC Rejects Pepco, Delmarva Tx Rate Challenges
December 3, 2019FERC rejected transmission rate challenges against Pepco and Delmarva Power & Light that questioned the accounting of the utilities’ prepaid pension assets. | © RTO Insider
Read MoreFERC OKs NYPA Incentives for AC Project
November 24, 2019FERC approved the New York Power Authority’s request for transmission rate incentives for its portion of a new AC transmission line. | NYISO
Read MoreFERC Orders Ameren Accounting Changes
November 24, 2019FERC ordered Ameren Illinois to revise its accounting for some expenses but otherwise rejected the latest round of challenges by Southwestern Electric Cooperative to the utility’s annual formula rate update. | Ameren
Read MoreAnbaric Seeks FERC Help on OSW Tx
November 19, 2019Anbaric asked FERC to order PJM to allow developers of offshore transmission “platforms” to obtain injection rights, saying the RTO’s Tariff violates the commission’s open access requirements. | Anbaric
Read MoreExelon Pledges Reforms amid Grand Jury Probe
November 1, 2019Exelon said it is cooperating with a federal investigation into its lobbying of the Illinois legislature and will make changes to ensure the “highest possible” ethical standards in the future. | © RTO Insider
Read MoreOverheard at EnVision Forum
October 27, 2019The EnVision Forum by FERC and the University of Kentucky’s Center for Applied Energy Research featured discussions on energy storage, RTO markets and transmission policy. | © RTO Insider
Read MoreEnergy Worlds Collide at Chatterjee Conference in Ky.
October 22, 2019FERC Chair Neil Chatterjee’s daylong EnVision Forum brought a who’s who of electric policymakers to the University of Kentucky, including state regulators, former FERC commissioners, trade groups and industry executives. | © RTO Insider
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