Expedited Resource Adequacy Study (ERAS)
Entergy
The new ERAS processes in MISO and SPP allow certain power plants to effectively jump the interconnection line, skipping ahead of hundreds of other projects already waiting their turn, writes Southern Renewable Energy Association Executive Director Simon Mahan.
AdminMonitor
ERCOT says it leaned on Texas’ 15 mobile generating units and an RMR unit during the state’s first major cold-weather event since 2021’s disastrous Winter Storm Uri.
Ace Glass
FERC rejected a rehearing request of its order approving SPP’s proposed one-time accelerated study of shovel-ready interconnection requests, sustaining its original 2025 decision.
PJM
A new report examines CAISO, MISO, PJM and SPP efforts to accelerate interconnection and concludes that while some may succeed in speeding generation additions, some sacrifice fairness, transparency and open-access principles.
Invenergy
Environmental groups are further pressing their opposition to MISO's and SPP’s fast-track studies for primarily fossil fuel projects, challenging both at the D.C. Circuit in a pair of lawsuits.
WER Architects-Planners
SPP notified stakeholders that the one-time expedited resource adequacy study process will open its window for fast-track review requests will open in September 2025.
Admin Monitor
Tenaska Power Services and the Texas Public Utility Commission have reached settlementin which the company will pay a $353,500 penalty and disgorge $28.24 million in excess revenue made in the ERCOT market
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SPP has dumped its “evolutionary, not revolutionary” value principle and is working to make things happen quickly in order to meet the pace of industry change.
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SPP stakeholders approved a tariff revision that creates a one-time study outside the grid operator’s normal planning process, helping load-responsible entities meet their resource adequacy requirement.
SPP
The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee has approved tariff revisions that would implement dispatchable transactions in the real-time energy market.
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