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1 week ago | 
rtowww.com | Holden Mann |Amanda Cook |Vincent Gabrielle |John Cropley
The Sierra Club, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and 11 other opponents of the Southeast Energy Exchange Market (SEEM) called on FERC to either clarify its March 14 order to update the market’s agreement or allow a rehearing of what they described as a novel legal theory put forward by the commission (ER21-1111-006, et al.).
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1 week ago | 
rtowww.com | John Cropley |Amanda Cook |Vincent Gabrielle |Devin Leith-Yessian
The U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts sharp increases in renewable power generation and sharp decreases in coal-fired power in its 2025 Annual Energy Outlook, released April 15. The EIA also projects an overall decrease in U.S. energy consumption over the next decade, with subsequent increases so small that 2050 levels still are lower than 2024 levels.
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3 weeks ago | 
rtowww.com | James Downing |Amanda Cook |Robert Mullin |Jon Lamson
Dominion Energy Virginia on March 31 filed for its first base rate increase in decades, citing pressure from inflation and the need to reliably serve a growing customer base. The request would raise the typical residential customer’s bill by $8.51/month starting Jan. 1, 2026, and another $2/month starting Jan. 1, 2027, Dominion said in an application filed with the State Corporation Commission (PUR-2025-00058). The new rates would mark the first increase in base rates since 1992.
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3 weeks ago | 
rtowww.com | Robert Mullin |Amanda Cook |Jon Lamson |Devin Leith-Yessian
CAISO’s 2024/25 draft transmission plan recommends 31 new projects at an estimated cost of $4.8 billion, slanting heavily toward reliability needs. The plan is based on California Public Utilities Commission forecasts projecting the state must add more than 76 GW of new capacity by 2039, the ISO said in the draft.
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1 month ago | 
rtowww.com | Amanda Cook |Robert Mullin |Henrik Nilsson |Jon Lamson
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has tossed a temporary injunction against Indiana’s right of first refusal law and sent the case back to a lower court, leaving plaintiff LS Power with more work ahead of it to increase competitively bid transmission projects in MISO.
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1 month ago | 
rtowww.com | Holden Mann |Robert Mullin |Henrik Nilsson |Amanda Cook
In a March 14 filing, FERC ruled that the Southeast Energy Exchange Market (SEEM) is compliant with the commission’s orders and reaffirmed its acceptance of the SEEM Agreement in 2021 (ER21-1111, et al.). However, commissioners also ordered SEEM’s member utilities to update the market’s manual to account for changing a key requirement and submit a compliance filing within 30 days confirming they have done so.
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1 month ago | 
rtowww.com | Devin Leith-Yessian |Robert Mullin |Henrik Nilsson |Amanda Cook
Planning CommitteePJM Presents Changes to DESTF Issue ChargePJM’s Chen Lu on March 4 presented the Planning Committee with a draft amendment to the Deactivation Enhancement Senior Task Force’s (DESTF) issue charge to add a key work activity (KWA) focused on creating pro forma language for reliability-must-run agreements with generation owners seeking to deactivate a unit identified as being necessary for reliability.
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1 month ago | 
rtowww.com | Devin Leith-Yessian |Robert Mullin |Henrik Nilsson |Amanda Cook
Offer Capping Resources with Advance CommitmentsVALLEY FORGE, Pa. — The PJM Market Implementation Committee endorsed by acclamation an RTO-sponsored issue charge to consider changes to how resources committed in advance of the day-ahead market are offer capped.
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1 month ago | 
rtowww.com | Amanda Cook |Robert Mullin |Henrik Nilsson |Jon Lamson
CARMEL, Ind. — MISO is nearing an overhaul of its capacity accreditation methods for load-modifying resources (LMRs) and demand response that would be based on whether they can assist during periods of high system risk. The grid operator plans to accredit LMRs and its emergency DR and behind-the-meter generation depending on their offers during low-margin and risky hours where a capacity advisory, maximum generation alert or warning, or energy emergency is in place.
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1 month ago | 
rtowww.com | Vincent Gabrielle |Robert Mullin |Henrik Nilsson |Amanda Cook
A Brattle Group study released in February found that New York could achieve 8.5 GW in “grid flexibility” measures by 2040, saving consumers more than $2 billion a year.
