The Integrating Public Policy Task Force met for the last time before handing its final carbon pricing proposal to NYISO’s stakeholder governance process.

NYISO recommended its carbon pricing proposal no longer include emissions-free resources with existing REC contracts pay the LBMP carbon component.

NYISO said it would revise its carbon pricing proposal to enhance the bidding treatment for carbon-free resources and help prevent carbon leakage.

New York electricity market stakeholders reviewed three separate studies to evaluate the implications of a carbon charge in NYISO’s energy markets.

Backers of energy-related ballot measures faced defeat on nearly every front in the West as voters in AZ, NV and WA rejected a series of proposals.

The Energy Bar Association’s Mid-Year Energy Forum featured debates over FERC Order 1000, state-federal jurisdiction, rate structures and PURPA.

NYISO floated a plan to calculate the carbon pricing impact on locational-based marginal prices (LBMPc) using the social cost of carbon.

NYISO proposed a framework for billing carbon charges to New York energy suppliers to price greenhouse gas emissions in the market.

Methane emissions might be reduced by making them part of the carbon markets, panelists said at a forum hosted by The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.

NYISO floated a carbon pricing proposal that would leave importers and exporters to manage the risk of predicting carbon charges for real-time imports.