The judge overseeing PG&E’s bankruptcy questioned the utility’s attorney over a proposed executive compensation package that includes about $11 million in performance-based bonuses.
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ERCOT’s low, 8.5% reserve margin sticks out even more when compared to those of most other regions in the U.S., where their reserves are well above their reference levels, according to data presented to FERC. | NOAA
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Climate change could have catastrophic effects sooner than previously thought, according to a new report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. | IPCC
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The 11th annual gathering of the Western Power Issues Roundtable came after several shakeups in the Western Interconnection. | © RTO Insider
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Solar power and storage providers differed sharply with LDCs and state officials in comments filed this week in FERC’s rulemaking on DER. | © RTO Insider
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Use-limited resources will be allowed to attach opportunity cost adders to their bids in CAISO’s energy market under a proposal approved by FERC. | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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FERC will be closely monitoring ERCOT and Southern California this summer as most of the country faces the likelihood of above-normal temperatures.
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As they have in the past four years, the trends in natural gas dominated the discussion of FERC’s annual State of the Markets report. | © RTO Insider
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Nuclear Energy Institute CEO Maria Korsnick expressed support for FirstEnergy’s request that the Department of Energy declare an emergency in PJM.
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Transmission developers, planners and regulators gathered at the Washington Marriott Georgetown hotel for the three-day Infocast Transmission Summit East. | © RTO Insider
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There was little to no consensus on how regulators and utilities should measure or value resilience at Infocast’s 21st Annual Transmission Summit East. | © RTO Insider
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While President Trump’s executive order rolling back efforts to combat climate change upset environmentalists, RTO officials are largely shrugging their shoulders.
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CAISO said it will take advantage of a recently approved West-wide system reliability measure to ensure that its grid operators have the ability to send power into Southern California during instances when Aliso Canyon gas pipeline restrictions constrain output from regional gas-fired generation.
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FERC denied San Diego Gas & Electric’s request for rehearing of an order that limited the amount the utility can be reimbursed if its South Orange County Reliability Enhancement transmission upgrade project is canceled.
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RTOs and ISOs will take part in 15 research and development projects awarded almost $38 million in funding by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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CAISO told FERC that its software’s inability to recognize available balancing capacity was creating false scarcity in the market.
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is starting the process of arbitrating interregional Order 1000 compliance filings, beginning last week with PJM and MISO.
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