FERC Commentary on ISO Credit Processes, What Changes are Potentially Coming

Time: Monday, April 17, 2023 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Level: Advanced

About

The presentation will explore the current credit process activity at PJM and FERC from a current events perspective. This will include the impacts of Winter Storm Elliott on the capacity performance construct and the current threats of generator insolvency from the $1 to 2 billion dollar capacity penalty payments owed to PJM. The presentation will integrate recent FERC rulings on PJM market participant bankruptcy positioning in its tariff, FTR credit requirements, and capacity penalty repayment schedules. Further consideration will be given to the potential direct effect credit outcomes will have on the reliability of the PJM grid. Combined with this will be an evaluation of how the current interest rate hikes and bank failures could create dozens of outcome permutations involving individual distressed generation asset decision making. We will also investigate how FERC’s internal processes accept ISO submitted credit and market design filings and support the building of a record based on intervenor comments and reply comments then considers them and creates staff positions or draft orders for the FERC commissioner reviews.

Objectives

  • Gain a deeper understanding of the dynamic PJM credit issues currently being debated at FERC. Generate insights into the potential cause and effects of the capacity penalties and ongoing corporate financial challenges that could result in bankruptcies or reduced market participation. Develop decision trees that could illustrate the most likely sequence of credit events and the next credit and operational equilibrium point.

     

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