RPB Energy Economics with Econolytics submitted a report on an international standby tariffs survey to PTIT for the Office of Energy Regulatory Commission last month.  The purpose of our study is to review and evaluate standby tariff designs from several different jurisdictions to better understand the range of potential rate designs possible for use in […]

Lusaka, Zambia  In November 2019,  Dr. Romkaew Broehm shared her experience and knowledge of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Open Access Transmission Policies  with Southern African regulators and their staff during a three-day peer review  on Grid Code Implementation.  The program was organized by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and sponsored by […]

On December 20, 2018 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) to relieve market-based rate (MBR) sellers in RTOs/ISOs from filing market power screen analyses if their RTOs/ISOs have the FERC-approved market monitoring and mitigation protocols (MMPs).[1,2] However, this relief will not eliminate the regulatory reporting requirements such as […]