Document ID: FERC-2015-0227-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Winter 2013-2014 Operations and Market Performance in Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators: Centralized Capacity Markets in Regional Transmission
Posted Date: 2015-02-26T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 38 (Thursday, February 26, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10479-10480]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-04018]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. AD13-7-000-AD14-8-000]

Centralized Capacity Markets in Regional Transmission 
Organizations and Independent System Operators; Winter 2013-2014 
Operations and Market Performance in Regional Transmission 
Organizations and Independent System Operators; Notice Allowing Public 
Comment

    On November 20, 2014, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
(Commission) issued an Order on Technical Conferences \1\ to address 
the issue of fuel assurance, which was raised in various venues, 
including the Commission's September 25, 2013 technical conference on 
centralized capacity markets in regional transmission organizations and 
independent system operators (RTO/ISO) and the Commission's April 1, 
2014 technical conference on winter 2013/2014 operations and market 
performance in RTOs/ISOs. The Order discussed fuel assurance issues and 
directed RTOs/ISOs to file reports on the status of their efforts to 
address fuel assurance issues within 90 days of the date of the order. 
On February 18, 2015, the RTOs/ISOs submitted their reports in 
compliance with the order.
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    \1\ Centralized Capacity Markets in Regional Transmission 
Organizations and Independent System Operators, 149 FERC ] 61,145 
(2014) (Order).
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    In the Order, the Commission also allowed for a 30-day public 
comment period following the submission of the RTO/ISO reports. 
Pursuant to the Order, all interested persons are invited to file 
comments on any or all of the RTO/ISO reports filed. These comments 
must be filed with the Commission no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern 
Standard Time (EST) on Friday, March 20, 2015.
    For more information about this Notice, please contact: David 
Tobenkin (Technical Information), Office of Energy Policy and 
Innovation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

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First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-6445, 
David.Tobenkin@ferc.gov; Kate Hoke (Legal Information), Office of the 
General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 
NE., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-8404, Katheryn.Hoke@ferc.gov.

    Dated: February 20, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-04018 Filed 2-25-15; 8:45 am]
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