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The Significance of FERC’s Recent PJM MOPR Order Explained

December 27, 2019 admin auction, Business, capacity, Coal, competitive markets, Environmental, ferc, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, Market, Markets, news, Nuclear, price floor, Renewables, resources, Solar, subsidized generation, T&D, Technology, Wind, zecs

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 16:16:59 +0000

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A divided Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a long-awaited order on Dec. 19 in which it directed PJM Interconnection to dramatically expand its Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) to nearly all state-subsidized capacity resources. The order will have a significant impact on PJM’s capacity market. While it was no surprise that the decision immediately […]

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States to FERC: Promote Market Designs That Recognize State Priorities

October 31, 2019 admin Business, climate change, Coal, courts, DOE, Environmental, federal power act, ferc, Gas, grid resilience, iso-ne, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, Markets, mopr, news, Nuclear, nuclear subsidies, NYISO, pjm, recs, Renewables, states, zecs

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:57:18 +0000

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Attorneys general from 11 states ramped up pressure on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to recognize state policy goals as it makes decisions related to market design, siting of new gas pipelines and storage facilities, and grid reliability. The measure is the latest in a string of recent pushes by states to ensure federally […]

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Nuclear Subsidy Dispute Now Rests with FERC, Competitive Generators Say

April 16, 2019 admin Business, calpine, climate change, courts, epsa, Exelon, Federal Court, ferc, Illinois, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, Markets, mopr, New Jersey, New York, news, NRG, Nuclear, nuclear subsidies, Ohio, Pennsylvania, pjm, pseg, second circuit, seventh circuit, Supreme Court, vistra, zecs

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:41:28 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to reconsider industry-led challenges to state nuclear subsidy programs in New York and Illinois leaves the contentious matter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The high court on April 15 declined to accept petitions for review of decisions by the Second Circuit and Seventh Circuit, dealing a major blow […]

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Pennsylvania Is Newest Nuclear Subsidy Battleground

February 14, 2019 admin Business, Exelon, FirstEnergy, Legislative, Markets, news, Nuclear, Pennsylvania, zecs

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:29:40 +0000

Pennsylvania, the nation’s second-largest nuclear power-producing state, is now definitively a battleground for nuclear power subsidies. Last week, in two memos that were circulated in the state House and Senate, seven lawmakers signaled they would soon introduce legislation that would update a 2004 state law—the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards (AEPS)—to include nuclear power. The law […]

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Competitive Generators Look to the Supreme Court After Seventh Circuit Declines Rehearing on Nuclear Subsidies

October 11, 2018 admin capacity market, capacity market reform, courts, epsa, Illinois, Legal & Regulatory, New York, news, NRG, Nuclear, nuclear subsidies, pjm, second circuit, seventh circuit, Supreme Court, zecs

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has declined to rehear a case that challenges nuclear subsidies in Illinois, effectively dealing a blow to a group of competitive generators, which have fought the measure for several years. In an order issued on October 9, the appellate court said its full judicial panel had voted to deny […]

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FERC Nixes PJM’s Fixes for Capacity Market Besieged by Subsidized Resources

July 5, 2018 admin Business, capacity markets, competitive markets, ferc, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, pjm, state, subsidies, zecs

In a 3–2 decision, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected approaches filed by PJM Interconnection to reform its capacity market, whose integrity and effectiveness has been increasingly and “untenably threatened” by state subsidies for preferred generation resources, the federal regulatory body acknowledged. The June 29 order sharply divided the commission, prompting Democrat Commissioners Cheryl LaFleur […]

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