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PJM: Buying Strategies to Help you Prepare for Another Extreme Cold Season
Last year’s brutal winter in PJM – combined with the likelihood of another polar vortex this coming cold season – is giving commercial and industrial consumers good reason to reevaluate their energy management strategies to protect against hypersensitivity in the market caused by extreme temperature… Read more
ERCOT Expects Sufficient Resources For Winter
ERCOT expects the region will have sufficient electric supplies this winter, based on a broad range of planning scenarios in the Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy. Generation resources for this winter total more than 77,350 MW. The forecast, based on 12-year average winter temperatures, projects… Read more
FERC Removes PJM’s 10 Percent Adder From Generators’ Make-Whole Payments
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said that PJM should not have included a 10 percent adder in its calculation of make-whole payments to generators whose costs exceeded the $1,000/MWh offer cap last winter. FERC granted a rehearing request to PJM’s Independent Market Monitor, agreeing that including… Read more
Connect with GDF SUEZ in October and help the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
Through its continued Connect for a Cause initiative, GDF SUEZ Energy Resources will be donating $3,000 plus $1 for each new social media follower or interaction to the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center during October. Connecticut Children's Medical Center is the only free-standing children's hospital… Read more
FirstEnergy’s proposed PPA deal in Ohio sparks controversy
FirstEnergy has asked the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to approve a power purchase agreement under which its regulated utilities would buy electricity from FirstEnergy Solutions, its unregulated subsidiary. The company says the plan will protect customers from future rate increases. Critics say… Read more
Only a couple more days to connect with GDF SUEZ in September and help the Good Neighbor Energy Fund
Through its continued Connect for a Cause initiative, GDF SUEZ Energy Resources will be donating $3,000 plus $1 for each new social media follower or interaction to the Good Neighbor Energy Fund during September. The Massachusetts Good Neighbor Energy Fund provides energy assistance to hundreds-of-thousands… Read more
PJM Drops Plan To Create Real-Time Reserve Market
PJM has dropped a plan to create a real-time reserve market, bowing to stakeholder concerns over the cost and complexity of a solution that would be implemented only a few times a year. Instead, it is finalizing a proposal it says is a more flexible version of the short-term fix approved by stakeholders… Read more
NYISO Sees Capacity Shortages By 2019
Some areas of New York could face transmission violations as soon as next year and capacity shortages are likely by 2019 – one year earlier than expected – according to NYISO’s latest Reliability Needs Assessment (RNA). “These reliability needs are generally driven by recent and proposed generator retirements… Read more
Energy Consumption In ERCOT Rises; Natural Gas Remains Leading Fuel Source
Energy consumption across ERCOT grew year over year in August, as natural gas continued to be the leading fuel source, according to data released by the grid operator. The 2014 Demand and Energy by Month report shows net energy usage across ERCOT’s footprint totaled 35.9 million MWh in August, compared… Read more
Connect with GDF SUEZ in September and help the Good Neighbor Energy Fund
Through its continued Connect for a Cause initiative, GDF SUEZ Energy Resources will be donating $3,000 plus $1 for each new social media follower or interaction to the Good Neighbor Energy Fund during September. The Massachusetts Good Neighbor Energy Fund provides energy assistance to hundreds-of-thousands… Read more