Competitive Transmission Developers file Section 206 Complaint against NYISO alleging that the New York Independent System Operator’s AC Transmission Public Policy Transmission Needs Project Solicitation (“Feb 29 Solicitation”) violates the grid operator’s Open Access Transmission Tariff (“OATT”) and is inconsistent with the Commission’s directives in Order No. 1000. On June 10, 2016, Boundless Energy NE, LLC; CityGreen […]
U.S. Supreme Court Blasts Maryland for Distorting PJM’s Capacity Market
The U.S. Supreme Court blasts Maryland for distorting PJM’s capacity market, thus affirming the Fourth Circuit’s ruling that the Maryland Public Service Commission’s Generation Order is field preempted by FERC’s plenary authority to regulate “the sale of electric energy at wholesale in interstate commerce.” §824(b)(1). “[T]he law places beyond FERC’s power, and leaves to the […]