reliability issues unless more resources are brought online by 2010, the nation's electric reliability watchdog said last week. The North American Electric Reliability Corp. in its 2008 Long-Term Reliability Assessment said New England, California, the Rocky Mountain region, Texas and the Midwest all showed improvements in capacity margins because of new resources or the establishment of forward capacity markets. The forward capacity market introduced in New England earlier this year -under which generators are paid incentives to increase existing capacity or bring new generation online - has boosted resource adequacy in that region, the report says.
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