Backup fuel oil provides reliability to power grid
Rules requiring both gas and oil in power plants guard against Texas-sized mass outages
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NYSIO tracks power flows across the state from their control room in Rensselaer County.Times Union file photo
RENSSELAER One of the reasons New York would likely avoid the kind of statewide power outages recently seen in Texas is the state’s dual-fuel mandate, according to a top energy official.
“We’ve got the capability to run oil as a backstop,” Rich Dewey, president and CEO of the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), said on Thursday.
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E-1 – Calpine Corporation, Dynegy Inc., Eastern Generation, LLC, Homer City Generation, L.P., NRG Power Marketing LLC, GenOn Energy Management, LLC, Carroll County Energy LLC, C.P. Crane LLC, Essential Power, LLC, Essential Power OPP, LLC, Essential Power Rock Springs, LLC, Lakewood Cogeneration, L.P., GDF SUEZ Energy Marketing NA, Inc., Oregon Clean Energy, LLC, and Panda Power Generation Infrastructure Fund, LLC v. PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (Docket Nos. EL16-49-006, ER18-1314-010, & EL18-178-006). On June 29, 2018, the Commission issued an order addressing two underlying proceedings that were initiated due to increasing out of market support or state subsidies that were having a suppressive effect on the price of capacity procured by PJM Interconnection L.L.C. (PJM) through its Reliability Pricing Model (RPM) capacity market (June Order). In the first underlying proceeding, Calpine Corporation (Calpine) and other generation entities filed