Three clean energy trade groups asked DOE to reconsider its recent report on resource adequacy, which they contend uses a deterministic approach to stake out a position for not retiring any more power plants in the face of rising electricity demand.

The Michigan coal plant kept online by an emergency order from the U.S. Department of Energy cost $29 million to run in a little over a month.

The Department of Energy issued an emergency order to lift annual run-hour restrictions on the H.A. Wagner Generating Station Unit 4 located outside of Baltimore to address a shortage of generation in PJM.

The PJM Board of Managers is pursuing an approach that would spread the cost of continuing to operate Constellation Energy’s Eddystone Generating Station to all PJM consumers.

The Michigan attorney general and a group of 10 NGOs have filed for rehearing of DOE's order to keep a coal plant running for this summer, while those parties and others debated the cost recovery filing Consumers Energy made at FERC.

Looking ahead to the possibility of future emergency orders from the DOE, stakeholders endorsed a PJM issue charge to establish a more permanent set of rules for how to allocate the cost of keeping generation online beyond its desired deactivation date when ordered by the federal government.

The Members Committee is set to vote on several proposals drafted by PJM and stakeholders to determine how to allocate costs associated with generators required to remain online through DOE’s emergency orders under FPA Section 202(c).