States may need to leave PJM capacity market to advance clean energy goals: enviros

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Legacy provisions in PJM Interconnection’s tariff may be the answer tostaving off some of the worst purported impacts of new capacitymarket rules to clean energy development in the US’ largest powermarket, two clean energy advocates said Wednesday.The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s December 19 order(EL16-49, EL18-178) revamping PJM’s capacity market to combat thepotential price-suppressing effects of state subsidy programs hasprovoked a sharp rebuke from the renewable energy sector. A numberof critics say the order, which expands application of the minimumoffer price rule (MOPR) to all new resources receiving state subsidies,puts states’ clean energy policies in the crosshairs.