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U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Review Decision Prohibiting Courts from Ruling on Wholesale Power Prices

May 8, 2005 Energy Legal Blog^®

Fallout from the 2000-2001 western energy crisis persisted in April. In a case involving one of the relatively smaller claims to arise out of the crisis, on April 18, 2005, the US Supreme Court denied the petition of the State...

Benefits of ISOs and RTOs "“ ISO-NE Results Show Lower Prices, Increased Investment and Improved Efficiency, Reliability and Environmental Action

May 8, 2005 Energy Legal Blog^®

In its recently published "Progress of New England's Restructured Electric Industry and Competitive Markets: The Benefits of ISOs and RTOs," ISO-New England ("ISO-NE") lauds the long-term performance of its power market. Since the market's inception in 1999, New England wholesale...

New England Set to Implement Day-Ahead Demand-Response Market Beginning June 1

May 8, 2005 Energy Legal Blog^®

The New England Power Pool and the ISO New England finally won FERC approval in April to expand their demand-response bidding beyond real-time to the day-ahead market ¾ the Day-Ahead Load-Response Program or DALRP. This approval joins other recent regulatory...

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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U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Review Decision Prohibiting Courts from Ruling on Wholesale Power Prices

Benefits of ISOs and RTOs "“ ISO-NE Results Show Lower Prices, Increased Investment and Improved Efficiency, Reliability and Environmental Action

New England Set to Implement Day-Ahead Demand-Response Market Beginning June 1

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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