November 23, 2024

Energy Market

PacifiCorp
Brattle Study Likely to Fuel Debate over EDAM, Markets+

The white paper by The Brattle Group offers a point-by-point comparison of CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market and SPP’s Markets+ that leans in favor of EDAM but stops short of endorsing either market.

MISO
MISO: Lower Prices, Fewer Outages and Annual Peak in August
MISO reported relatively lower costs and outages in August while it served its annual peak late in the month.
CAISO
CAISO Launches Phase 2 of Pricing Issues Initiative
The next phase of the Price Formation Enhancements Initiative will look to address issues around market power mitigation, scarcity pricing and fast-start pricing.
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PUC’s Gleeson at Texas Clean Energy Summit: Smooth Tenure Turns ‘Interesting’
Thomas Gleeson, chair of Texas’ Public Utility Commission, spoke at the Texas Clean Energy summit about the challenges he has faced during his tenure.
CAISO
CAISO Seeks to Dispel CRR ‘Myths’ Around January Cold Snap
CAISO focused on CRRs when it served up the latest volley in the ongoing dispute over what played out on the Western grid during the January cold snap that forced Northwest utilities to import high volumes of energy to avoid blackouts.
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NYISO ICAP Working Group Briefs: Sept. 24, 2024
NYISO’s Market Monitoring Unit, Potomac Economics, presented recommendations for addressing what it calls inefficient market outcomes caused by setting locational capacity requirements based on the transmission security limit.
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CAISO Passes Initiatives to Address Meter Data Reporting, Expand Trading
The CAISO Board of Governors and Western Energy Markets Governing Body passed two proposals that address different issues within Western markets.
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RTOs Continue Glacial Pace at Replacing ‘Freeze Date’
MISO, PJM and SPP have failed for years to find a suitable replacement for a 20-year-old system reference they use to portion out flow rights on their system, the so-called freeze date.
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FERC Grants PGE Extra Time to Prepare for EDAM
FERC granted CAISO a waiver allowing PGE to join the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market a few months beyond the timeline set out in the market’s standard participation agreement.
West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative
Pathways Initiative Releases ‘Step 2’ Proposal for Western ‘RO’
Pathways released its Step 2 draft proposal for dividing up functions between CAISO and the new “regional organization” that initiative backers are seeking to create to oversee the ISO’s Western real-time and day-ahead markets.

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