News Digest

 

Transmission and ISOs

Dot.Com Favoritism. A group of Pennsylvania electric utilities (UGI, Metropolitan Edison, PECO Energy, Pennelec, and PPL) accused the PJM Independent System Operator (ISO) of violating its own rules by allowing the competitive electric retailer Utility.com to prematurely terminate its operating agreements with the ISO after the supplier ceased operations in the state in a manner, say the utilities, that "violated its obligations under Pennsylvania law."

According to the utilities, the success of the Pennsylvania market has stemmed in part because PJM has synchronized its tariffs with the state's retail access rules, but that in this case, they allege that PJM coddled Utility.com and its withdrawal from markets by allowing transmission service to shift from one load-serving entity outside the window of the meter read date required by PJM and state market rules. .-B.W.R.