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FERC Asks for Comments on the Roles of RTOs and ISOs in Establishing Reference Prices for Mitigation

May 8, 2005 Energy Legal Blog^®

On April 1, 2005, FERC invited comments on the roles of Regional Transmission Organizations ("RTO"), Independent System Operators ("ISO"), or their market monitors in establishing reference prices to be used to lower or "mitigate" wholesale power prices deemed to be...

FERC Seeks to Rectify Imbalance in OATT with New Rule Giving Lift to Wind

May 8, 2005 Energy Legal Blog^®

To integrate wind and other intermittent resources energy more completely into wholesale power markets, FERC has proposed a new rule that would relax the imbalance penalties that generators pay under the pro forma open-access transmission tariff ("OATT"). The proposed new...

Mexican High Court Rejects Congressional Auditors' Challenge to Private Generation and Sales of Power

May 8, 2005 Energy Legal Blog^®

Private power south of the border narrowly escaped in April a congressional audit committee invalidating as unconstitutional their generation and sale of power to the national electricity monopoly, the Comisión Federal de Electricidad ("CFE"). At the request of Mexican President...

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FERC Asks for Comments on the Roles of RTOs and ISOs in Establishing Reference Prices for Mitigation

FERC Seeks to Rectify Imbalance in OATT with New Rule Giving Lift to Wind

Mexican High Court Rejects Congressional Auditors' Challenge to Private Generation and Sales of Power

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