October 5, 2024

reliability-must-run (RMR) agreements

ERCOT
ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee Briefs
ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee endorsed two previously tabled nodal protocol revision requests following lengthy discussions.
FERC Grants NYISO RMR Compliance Extension
FERC approved NYISO’s request for a 30-day extension for submitting additional reliability-must-run (RMR) tariff revisions.
Calpine
PGE, CAISO Protest Calpine RMR Terms
CAISO and PG&E are opposing the terms of a reliability-must-run (RMR) agreement for 2 California natural gas-fired plants that Calpine submitted with FERC.
California Utilities Short on Local RA Capacity
A CAISO report suggests that California’s utilities are about 2,000 MW short of the capacity needed to comply with 2018 local resource adequacy requirements
© RTO Insider
Board Decisions Highlight CAISO Market Problems
The CAISO Board of Governors approved two measures intended to prevent the early retirement of unprofitable but needed generation in California.
Texas PUC Resistant to NextEra’s Minority Interest in Oncor
Having thrice been rejected in its attempts at majority ownership, NextEra Energy is now making a long-shot bid to acquire a minority in Oncor.
California Energy Commission
Metcalf Reliability-Must-Run Draws Scrutiny
CAISO will gather feedback on its proposal for reliability payments to keep Calpine’s Metcalf gas-fired plant from retiring.
Power Sellers, LSEs Question CAISO ROR Designation
Generation owners in CAISO are urging changes in an ISO reliability proposal for determining which unprofitable generators are eligible to receive payments.
CAISO Seeks Changes to Boost Retirement Program
CAISO unveiled its latest revisions to a program meant to compensate uneconomic generation units needed to maintain reliability.
PUCT Workshop to Address ERCOT Market Improvements
The ERCOT energy-only market may not be broken, but stakeholders will discuss some fine-tuning at a PUCT workshop this week.

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