“The big debate out there,” said Gordon van Welie, CEO of ISO-New England, “is can you do it the way Texas is doing it, which is an energy-only market? Or do you need a capacity market?”
Capacity markets aim to ensure grid reliability by paying participants to commit generation for delivery years into the future. Energy-only markets, by contrast, pay generators only when they provide power on a day-to-day basis.
How about a third way — one where power utilities incentivize their customers to maintain battery power backup systems which they fill when there is excess power in the grid and draw from when there is high demand.
The following list of Connecticut Utility regulations…
Sec. 16-243n. Time-of-use, mandatory peak, shoulder, off-peak and seasonal rates. Optional interruptible or load response rates.Sec. 16-243h. Credit to residential customers who…