Federal Energy Regulatory Commission member Richard Glick again offered a sharp rebuke of agency actions he believes are frustrating the state of New York's clean energy policies, as the commission late Oct. 7 issued an order upholding a decision stripping demand response resources' blanket exemption from the region's buyer-side market power mitigation rules. A split FERC in February overturned its own 2017 determination that new DR providers participating in the New York Independent System Operator-administered special case resource (SCR) program should not be subject to the BSM rules (EL16-92, ER17-996). The SCR program reduces electricity consumption when operating reserves are forecast to fall short or a bulk power system emergency occurs by calling on large power users participating in the program to shed load. Program participants are compensated by NYISO for reducing their power usage and receive payments in advance of being called upon for clearing the capacity market.
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