Few observers outside the electric utility industry understand the U.S. power grid, often called the world’s largest machine. It’s three grids, actually—the Eastern Interconnect, the Western Interconnect, and the Texas…
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) ruling on Sept. 4, 2020, rejected, in a three-to-one decision, the New York Independent System Operator's (NYISO) proposal to change its capacity market rules,…
It’s an article of faith in large parts of the U.S.—at least among power industry people—that organized and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)–regulated “merchant” interstate power markets are the best…
I joined NRG Energy in Princeton, New Jersey, on Pearl Harbor Day of 2009. Over the next eight and a half years, I talked to hundreds of print, online and…