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December 2018

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ERCOT Faces Tight Summer Margins, Market Changes
ERCOT is preparing to take on the Texas heat again in 2019 with reserve margins that have shrunk even further than last summer's.
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Ailing Chair, Resilience Inquiry Topped FERC News in 2018
FERC begins 2019 with a new chairman and renewed questions about whether it will resist President Trump's efforts to deliver on his pledges to coal.
Cal Fire
Trump Administration Fiddled While California Burned
2018 brought chilling warnings about the growing dangers of climate change, but President Trump continued to question the reality of a warming planet.
ISO-NE
ISO-NE Pulls off Fuel Security, CASPR Measures
Despite a few bumps, scrapes and scares throughout the year, ISO-NE delivered on time by dispatching key market initiatives.
CAISO
RC Transition, California Wildfires Will Occupy 2019
CAISO will tackle its new role as reliability coordinator in 2019, and California lawmakers will struggle with preventing wildfires sparked by power lines.
FERC
Critics: CEII Rule a Trojan Horse for Coal, Nuke Bailouts
Critics said the U.S. DOE’s proposal for designating electric infrastructure information could be a Trojan horse to subsidize coal and nuclear power.
Dominion Energy
Connecticut Zero-Carbon Awards Include Nukes, OSW, Solar
Connecticut announced the results of state’s solicitation for nearly 12 million MWh of zero-carbon electric power, equivalent to 45% of the electric load.
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SPP Still Looking West — and Inward
SPP will this year begin providing reliability coordinator services to more than a dozen entities in the Western Interconnection.
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PJM Ponders New Capacity Rules — Again — in 2019
In many ways, PJM's 2018 was much like years before, with capacity and energy market rules under constant redesign. Some stakeholders have grown weary of the churn.
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MISO to Address Growing Supply Shortage in New Year
MISO will spend much of 2019 working on how it can prevent the increasingly frequent emergency conditions it experienced in 2018.

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