FERC’s 2015 Energy Primer Reflects Changes in Energy Markets
… a broad overview of the physical wholesale markets for natural gas and electricity and energy-related financial markets. The new manual … include: Updated figures and recent trends in U.S. natural gas and electricity markets. New maps of ISO and RTO regions to reflect … instruments used for hedging and arbitrage in natural gas and electricity. Expanded discussion of the anti-manipulation provisions of …
FERC Approves Natural Gas Price Indices Updates
… price indices are used to price billions of dollars of natural gas and electricity transactions annually in both the physical and financial … is critical to the efficient functioning of both natural gas and electricity markets. Additionally, natural gas price indices are often used to verify electricity supply offers in RTO/ISO markets from gas-fired generators …
OPP
Introduction to Western Markets Expansion
… the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission introduced competition in the electricity sector, leading to the development of organized electricity markets. While several regions in the United States quickly … the West has taken an incremental approach to regional wholesale electricity markets. In recent years, market initiatives such as …
Electric
FERC Approves Final Rule to Improve Gas-Electric Coordination
… further steps to improve coordination of wholesale natural gas and electricity market scheduling as the nation increasingly relies on gas … efficient operation of both the interstate natural gas pipeline and electricity systems. This Final Rule represents the culmination of more … efficient operations of our interstate natural gas pipelines and our electricity systems. The Final Rule adopts two proposals submitted by …
FERC to Examine Potential Wrongdoing in Markets During Recent Cold Snap
… that its Office of Enforcement is examining wholesale natural gas and electricity market activity during last week’s extreme cold weather to … of market participant behavior in the wholesale natural gas and electricity markets. The Division uses market participant-level trading … hubs in the United States and the organized and bilateral wholesale electricity markets. DAS closely identifies and scrutinizes any …
Electric
FERC Issues Policy Statement on Carbon Pricing in Organized Wholesale Markets
… to incorporate a state-determined carbon price in organized wholesale electricity markets. Carbon pricing has emerged as an important … in state efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including in the electricity sector. Twelve states now impose some version of carbon … to incorporating state-determined carbon prices into wholesale electricity markets. During FERC’s September 2020 technical conference …
AR-7 Gas Turbine Generating Plants
… fuel supplied the utility by the customer for use in the production of electricity by the utility. What is the proper accounting for this … steam which is sold, is incidental to the main function of producing electricity by the turbine generator and, therefore, is a by-product of … of such equipment, whether stemming from the production and sale of electricity or of heat or steam, in the appropriate electric operations …
Electric
FERC Clarifies Determination of 80-MW Capacity Cap for QFs
… which determines a facility’s power production capacity based on the electricity that it can actually deliver to the interconnecting … of solar panels with a gross capacity of 160 MW of direct current (DC) electricity and a 50 MW battery energy storage system. The maximum output of the project’s 20 invertors, which convert the DC electricity into alternating current, means that only 80 MW can be …
Electric
April 2022 Commission Meeting: Opening Remarks of Commissioner Allison Clements
… forward-looking transmission infrastructure investment. The nation’s electricity grid is the backbone for an increasingly digitalized and … in queues around the country, unable to provide largely lower cost electricity, with many hundreds more gigawatts predicted in coming … embraces the reality that we cannot successfully develop the nation’s electricity system unless we act in direct partnership with states. …
Commissioner Christie’s Concurrence in E-15 PURPA Notice of Intent Not to Act
… to residential solar customers appear to provide for net metering of electricity for participating customers. Net metering has been an … to utilities. If a small power production facility is not selling any electricity to the utility, PURPA does not apply. Petitioners have not … has long held that the utility does not engage in any purchase of electricity from a generator that is connected behind the customer’s …