FERC should let RTO stakeholder processes work and not issue broad and costly new mandates on grid resilience, commenters told the commission.
The PJM Operating Committee unanimously approved revisions to Manual 14D to tighten the notification rules for transferring the ownership of generation units.
Eversource Energy said that it will seek to support earnings growth through offshore wind contracts from its Bay State Wind partnership.
The MISO Reliability Subcommittee’s resource availability and need effort could revive a discussion on developing a capacity market divided by season.
The extensive FERC energy storage order (Order 841) has handed the MISO Reliability Subcommittee a new set of to-dos.
The CPUC warned that the state could return to the conditions preceding the energy crisis of the early 2000s if decision-making is not managed correctly.
The New York ISO (NYISO) faces increasing penetration of intermittent distributed energy resources (DER), declining load, all-time low energy prices and the need to replace aging generation.
FERC Commissioner Robert Powelson said that he sees an “erosion of confidence” in RTO stakeholder processes.
FERC approved settlement agreements among CAISO, Pacific Gas and Electric and Calpine covering reliability-must-run contracts for three Northern California gas-fired plants, reducing the revenue they will receive and making them subject to a must-offer requirement.
DTE Energy is focused on plans to double its renewable energy capacity by the early 2020s and build a new, controversial $1-billion gas-fired plant recently approved by regulator.