[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 120 (Friday, June 21, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37537-37538]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-14886]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. AD13-7-000]
Centralized Capacity Markets in Regional Transmission
Organizations and Independent System Operators; Notice of Technical
Conference
Take notice that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission) staff will hold a technical conference on centralized
capacity markets in Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent
System Operators (RTOs/ISOs) (centralized capacity markets). The
technical conference will take place on September 25, 2013 beginning at
9:00 a.m. and ending at approximately 5:00 p.m. The conference will be
held at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20426. All interested persons are invited to participate
at the conference. Commission members may participate in the
conference.
The purpose of the technical conference is to consider how current
centralized capacity market rules and structures are supporting the
procurement and retention of resources necessary to meet future
reliability and operational needs. Since their establishment,
centralized capacity markets have continued to evolve. Meanwhile, the
mix of resources is also evolving in response to changing market
conditions, including low natural gas prices, state and federal
policies encouraging the entry of renewable resources and other
specific technologies, and the retirement of aging generation
resources. This changing resource mix may result in future reliability
and operational needs that are different than those of the past. In
addition, some states have pursued individual resource adequacy
policies to ensure the development of new resources in particular areas
or with particular characteristics, and questions
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have been raised as to how those individual policies can be
accommodated in centralized capacity markets.
The Commission has addressed a number of these issues in specific
cases, based on the facts and circumstances presented in a given case
and the particular centralized capacity market design implemented by
individual regions. This technical conference will provide an
opportunity to review at a high level the centralized capacity market
rules and structures, and will examine how these markets are
accomplishing their intended goals and objectives through a
competitive, market-based process. Recognizing and respecting
differences across the markets, the technical conference will focus on
the goals and objectives of existing centralized capacity markets
(e.g., resource adequacy, long-term price signals, fixed-cost recovery,
etc.) and examine how specific design elements are accomplishing
existing and emerging goals and objectives (e.g., forward period,
commitment period, product definition and specificity, market power
mitigation, etc.).
A supplemental notice will be issued prior to the technical
conference with further details regarding the agenda and organization
of the technical conference, as well as information regarding interest
in speaking at the technical conference. Those interested in attending
the technical conference are encouraged to register at the following
Web page: https://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/registration/cap-markets-09-25-13-form.asp
The technical conference will not be transcribed. However, there
will be a free webcast of the conference. The webcast will allow
persons to listen to the technical conference, but not participate.
Anyone with Internet access who wants to listen to the conference
can do so by navigating to www.ferc.gov's Calendar of Events and
locating the technical conference in the Calendar. The technical
conference will contain a link to its webcast. The Capitol Connection
provides technical support for the webcast and offers the option of
listening to the meeting via phone-bridge for a fee. If you have any
questions, visit www.CapitolConnection.org or call 703-993-3100.
FERC conferences are accessible under section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations please
send an email to [email protected] or call toll free (866) 208-
3372 (voice) or (202) 502-8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208-2106
with the requested accommodations.
For more information about the technical conference, please
contact:
Shiv Mani (Technical Information), Office of Energy Policy and
Innovation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-8240, [email protected]:
Eric Eversole (Legal Information), Office of General Counsel, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC
20426, (202) 502-8697, [email protected].
Sarah McKinley (Logistical Information), Office of External Affairs,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington,
DC 20426, (202) 502-8004, [email protected].
Dated: June 17, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-14886 Filed 6-20-13; 8:45 am]
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