The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved PJM Interconnection’s request to delay the 2026-2027 capacity auction by six months, rescheduling it for June 2025, after complaints about soaring wholesale capacity market prices. The next three base capacity auctions, through the 2029-2030 delivery year, will also be delayed six months. Although some critics argue…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied a revised Interconnection Service Agreement (ISA) proposed for an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center linked to Talen Energy’s Susquehanna Nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. The proposal sought to increase co-located load capacity from 300 MW to 480 MW, but FERC voted 2-1 against it, with concerns about fairness…
The PJM Interconnection (PJM) is planning to ask the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to delay its 2026-2027 delivery year capacity auction by six months in response to a complaint that challenged the grid operator’s failure to reflect reliability must-run (RMR) power plants in its capacity auctions. RMR power plants are plants that have operated…
Originally scheduled for February 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has agreed to a one-year delay to the 19th ISO New England (ISO-NE) capacity auction. The delay came at the request of ISO-NE and the New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) as they seek additional time to develop and implement changes to their capacity accreditation…
