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CITY&STATE NEW YORK | Energy & Environment Power 100

Dec. 31, 2020 | City & State’s Energy & Environment Power 100 identifies the key players who are driving the debate – and the policies – here in New York.

SYRACUSE POST STANDARD | OpEd: Union Leader: Let carbon pricing move NY toward renewable energy goals

Dec. 15, 2020 | Ted Skerpon is president and business manager of IBEW Local Union 97, in Syracuse.

S&P GLOBAL | FEATURE: NYISO looks to market rules, transmission planning in 2021

Dec. 14, 2020 | The New York Independent System Operator will work with federal and state regulators on buyer-side mitigation rules, energy storage rules, transmission development and its Comprehensive Reliability Plan in 2021 as the state pushes ahead with energy transition initiatives, NYISO President and CEO Rich Dewey recently told S&P Global Platts.

POWER MARKETS TODAY | NYISO seeks change credit calculations for TCCs

Nov. 30, 2020 | November 30, 2020 -- NYISO last week asked FERC to change its credit requirement calculations for some transmission congestion contracts (TCC) to better align requirements with the risks . . .

WETM | New York electrical grid ready to meet upcoming winter demand

Nov. 24, 2020 | The statewide electrical grid has announced their preparedness efforts to meet demands for the upcoming winter season.

ALBANY TIMES UNION | Electricity supply more than adequate this winter, NYISO says

Nov. 23, 2020 | The New York Independent System Operator said Monday that the state has more than enough electric generating capacity to meet peak demand this winter.

POLITICO | NYISO to mull more capacity market revisions to integrate renewables, storage

Oct. 28, 2020 | See link

RTO INSIDER | FERC: Send Us Your Carbon Pricing Plans

Oct. 16, 2020 | FERC invited states to introduce carbon pricing in wholesale markets but said it had no authority to initiate such programs itself.

ALBANY TIMES UNION | Commentary: Protect jobs, cut carbon emissions to improve New York

Oct. 09, 2020 | Nobody multi-tasks like New Yorkers. From the gleaming asphalt of the “City that Never Sleeps” to the well-tilled earth upstate, Empire Staters never waste a minute. So when it comes to protecting jobs and cutting carbon emissions, why not do both?

RTO INSIDER | Update: FERC Urged to Embrace Carbon Pricing

Oct. 05, 2020 | Most panelists urged FERC to support state and RTO efforts to introduce carbon pricing during a daylong technical conference.

UTILITY DIVE | FERC has legal authority to implement a carbon price, experts tell commissioners

Oct. 02, 2020 | The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission does have the legal authority to implement a carbon price, legal experts agreed during a Wednesday technical conference on carbon pricing.

UTILITY DIVE | NYISO hightlights case for carbon pricing days before hightly-anticipated FERC conference

Sep. 29, 2020 | New York's grid operator is hoping a highly-anticipated carbon pricing conference will convince federal regulators that carbon pricing is the most efficient way for the wholesale power markets to support state decarbonization goals.

ALBANY TIMES UNION | New Yorkers back carbon pricing for electricity, poll finds

Sep. 28, 2020 | Siena College and the New York Independent System Operator released a new poll on Monday that found a majority of New Yorkers approve of factoring the social and environmental cost of carbon into the price of wholesale electricity.

MICROGRID KNOWLEDGE | How New York is Changing the Energy Storage Play in US Competitive Markets

Sep. 18, 2020 | The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) last month became the first competitive venue in the world to allow energy storage to fully participate in a wholesale energy market.

GREENTECH MEDIA | New York is Breaking New Ground in Allowing Batteries to Play in Multiple Markets

Sep. 11, 2020 | Last month, New York state grid operator NYISO officially started offering batteries and other energy storage resources a novel opportunity: a chance to earn money as both wholesale and retail energy resources, not just one or the other.

E&E NEWS | N.Y. grid operator kicks off rules to boost battery storage

Sep. 09, 2020 | New York's grid operator has eliminated a key barrier for adding energy storage technologies to the power grid in an effort to meet the state's ambitious climate targets.

UTILITY DIVE | NYISO allows full participation for energy storage in wholesale power markets

Sep. 09, 2020 | The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) Sept. 8 announced it would allow full participation of energy storage resources in NYISO's wholesale energy markets.

E&E NEWS | Lineup emerges for FERC technical conference on carbon pricing

Aug. 28, 2020 | The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Sept. 30 technical conference on carbon pricing in wholesale power markets will include top executives of affected grid operators, utilities and academics, according to a draft agenda obtained by E&E News.

RTO INSIDER | NYISO Q2 Energy Prices, Load at 10-Year+ Lows

Aug. 26, 2020 | NYISO energy markets performed competitively in the second quarter, with the pandemic leading to the lowest load and average fuel prices seen in more than a decade.

WALL STREET JOURNAL | California Blackouts a Warning for States Ramping Up Green Power

Aug. 18, 2020 | Millions of Californians could lose power in coming days, the state’s grid operator warned Monday, as it continues to struggle with inadequate electricity supplies as many people have been forced indoors to ride out a crippling heat wave during the coronavirus pandemic.