November 29, 2024

Capacity Market

Rules Will Limit MISO Capacity Resource Outages
MISO is wrapping up implementation of approved outage rules designed to dissuade capacity resources from taking long outages that could risk supply.
Little Change in MISO 2020/21 PRA Assumptions
Early data for MISO’s spring capacity auction shows a 1-GW uptick in the capacity supply needs but essentially no change in year-over-year peak forecasts.
Exelon Challenges PJM Monitor’s ComEd FRR Analysis
Exelon said a report from PJM's Monitor uses assumptions to cast a negative light on the FRR alternative members may pursue in the face of an expanded MOPR.
ISO-NE Capacity Prices Hit Record Low
ISO-NE's 2020 Forward Capacity Auction cleared at a record low of $2/kW-month, a nearly 50% drop from the $3.80/kW-month in 2019.
FERC Rejects Genbright Waiver on FCA14
FERC rejected a solar aggregator’s request to offer 14 DERs into ISO-NE’s 2020 Forward Capacity Auction despite a dispute over the interconnection status.
Is Self-supply Suppressing Prices?
Has FERC made a case that cooperatives, municipal utilities and vertically integrated utilities that self-supply suppress capacity prices?
MOPR Ruling Threatens to Upend Self-supply Model
ODEC and other self-supply load-serving entities in PJM argue FERC's order to expand the MOPR will undermine their roles in local economic development.
NEPOOL Markets Committee Briefs: Jan. 28, 2020
ISO-NE’s External Market Monitor presented the NEPOOL Markets Committee a design for mitigating market power in the day-ahead ancillary services market.
FERC Denies Rehearing on NYISO LCRs
FERC denied rehearing of its order accepting NYISO’s revisions to the methodology it uses to determine locational minimum installed capacity requirements.
Connecticut Weighs Pros, Cons of ISO-NE Markets
Connecticut regulators hosted a public hearing to examine whether ISO-NE’s wholesale electricity markets are geared to serving clean energy objectives.

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