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CAISO Interconnection Process Enhancements Face FERC Protest

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CAISO’s Interconnection Process Enhancements proposal faces protest at FERC from independent power producers, clean energy organizations, and renewable energy developers.  Challengers claim that CAISO’s scoring criteria...more

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Renewable Energy Update 8.19.24

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Analyst Wood Mackenzie expects the U.S. community solar sector to add 7.3 GW of new capacity by 2029, which would push the total cumulative installed community solar capacity to above 14 GW, according to a recent report...more

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FERC Accepts CAISO’s Request to Raise Soft Cap Offer

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On April 25, 2024, FERC approved the California Independent System Operator Corporation’s (“CAISO”) request to increase its capacity procurement mechanism (“CPM”) soft cap offer from $6.31/kW-month to $7.32, which will become...more

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FERC Boosts Opportunities for Transmission Development with Approval of CAISO Subscriber Participating Transmission Owner Model

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently approved an innovative new method to help unlock merchant transmission development in the Western United States. The new subscriber participating transmission owner...more

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Stakeholders Express Concern That CAISO’s Interconnection Scoring Criteria May Prioritize Load-Serving Entity Selection

The California Independent System Operator’s (CAISO) recently issued Interconnection Process Enhancements (IPE) final proposal provides heightened requirements to complete an interconnection request and relies on scoring...more

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CAISO Releases Interconnection Process Enhancements Final Proposal

On March 29, 2024, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) released the Track 2 final proposal for its Interconnection Process Enhancements (IPE) initiative. The proposed changes in the IPE proposal aim to address...more

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FERC Conditionally Approves CAISO Market Expansion

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On December 20, 2023, FERC approved the California Independent System Operator Corporation’s (“CAISO”) proposal to establish the Extended Day Ahead Market (“EDAM”), which allows external Balancing Authority Areas (“BAAs”) to...more

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FERC Approves Civil Penalties for Alleged Violations of CAISO and PJM Market Rules

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On March 28, 2022 and March 29, 2022, FERC issued two orders approving stipulation and consent agreements between FERC’s Office of Enforcement and Dynergy Marketing and Trade, LLC (“Dynergy”) and Constellation NewEnergy Inc....more

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FERC Accepts CAISO Tariff Changes for Co-located and Hybrid Resources

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On November 30, 2021, FERC issued and order accepting a California Independent System Operator Corporation (“CAISO”) tariff filing designed to clarify its market rules for hybrid and co-located resources. CAISO proposed two...more

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FERC Accepts CAISO Proposal Regarding Storage and Demand Response Resources

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On October 26, 2021, FERC issued an order accepting a California Independent System Operator Corporation (“CAISO”) tariff filing designed to improve CAISO’s markets by optimizing the performance of storage and demand response...more

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FERC Approves Changes to CAISO Interconnection Procedures; Next Queue Cluster Application Window Not Scheduled to Open Until 2023

On September 24, 2021, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an order (176 FERC ¶ 61,207) approving tariff revisions to amend the California ISO’s (CAISO) interconnection procedures for its current queue cluster...more

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FERC Grants Limited Waiver to the CAISO to Immediately Interconnect Gas Turbines

In the wake of Governor Newsom’s July 30, 2021 Emergency Proclamation intended to mitigate the strain on the California energy grid, the California Department of Water Resources (CDWR) and the California Energy Commission...more

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FERC Accepts Proposed Enhancements to CAISO Energy Imbalance Market

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On April 30, 2021, FERC accepted the California Independent System Operator Corporation’s (“CAISO”) submission of two proposals to revise its Tariff to amend provisions for its Energy Imbalance Market (“EIM”). In its first...more

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Demand Response and Advanced Metering: 2019 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Staff Report

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued on December 11th a staff report titled: 2019 Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering (“Report”)...more

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FERC Issues Penalty Assessment in Vitol CAISO Market Manipulation Proceeding

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an Order Assessing Civil Penalties, imposing approximately $1.5 million in civil penalties on Vitol Inc. and one million dollars in penalties on a Vitol trader. In a departure...more

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FERC Issues Show Cause Order Proposing $6.8M in Civil Penalties to Vitol Inc. and Individual Trader and $1.2M Disgorgement for...

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Recently, FERC issued an Order to Show Cause why Vitol Inc. and its co-director of financial transmission rights trading should not be found to have engaged in market manipulation by selling physical power in CAISO at a loss...more

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FERC Proposes to Reduce Information Burdens on Certain Market-Based Rate Sellers of Electricity

In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking dated December 20, 2018, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is proposing to reduce the burden on certain entities that sell electricity into organized wholesale electricity markets at...more

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FERC Rejects Electric Generators’ Request to Adopt Centralized Capacity Market in California

In June 2018, CXA La Paloma, LLC (“La Paloma”) filed a complaint at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or “the Commission”) seeking to require the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) to implement a...more

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Generators Urge FERC to Adopt Centralized Capacity Market in California

A coalition of electric generators in California has urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or “the Commission”) to require the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) to implement a centralized capacity...more

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5 Key Takeaways from FERC’s Recent Energy Storage Order

In February, FERC issued Order 841, Electric Storage Participation in Markets Operated by Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators (the “Order”), requiring RTOs and ISOs to establish new market...more

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FERC Amends Regulations to Remedy Barriers to Energy Storage Participation in Wholesale Electricity Markets; Saves Distributed...

At its February 15, 2018, Open Meeting, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the “Commission”) issued Order No. 841 (the “Final Rule”) to remove barriers to the participation of energy storage resources in the...more

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FERC Steps Up Efforts to Support Integration of Energy Storage Technologies Into Wholesale Power Markets

As momentum builds for wide-scale development and deployment of electric energy storage technologies, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has been taking a fresh look at how it can facilitate the integration of...more

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Energy Storage: Finding New Home with FERC Policy Statement and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has taken steps over the past few months to address integration of electric storage into the market. In November 2016, FERC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) to...more

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CAISO Urges Flexibility and Coordination to Advance Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations at FERC

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As previously covered by K&L Gates’ Global Power Law and Policy blog, on November 17, 2016, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) to remove barriers so that electric...more

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FERC Issues Policy Statement on Cost Recovery for Electric Storage Resources, But the Devil Will Be in the “Implementation...

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Last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”) issued a Policy Statement to provide guidance for electric storage resource owners and operators that may seek to receive cost-based rate...more

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