@AriPeskoe But midstream companies also weren't exactly hiding their business model. There were many times when you would hear it described outright in stakeholder calls.
@AriPeskoe I personally never understood why the end user didn't always have the rights to the efficiency. As far as I could tell, nothing was preventing an end user from ALSO selling the same efficiency into the capacity market as a "midstream" company like AE. /1
@aniruddh_mohan I bet Storage outperforms PJM's current long term ELCC. 4-hr storage has a much better ELCC in summer, so seasonal risk balance matters. I bet 1) risk returns to the summer, and 2) winter risk reduces on paper as gas performs better. We're in a temporary Elliott ELCC hangover.
This post is a lot to take in. While I agree "We should be thinking bigger about utility reform," the author's ultimate opinion seems to be based on confusion or misinformation regarding the status quo. A thread ๐งต
@CecereCarl@tx_law Nerfed means "disadvantage; weaken". It's used often in the context of video games where an overpowered character's capabilities are lowered by programmers in an update.
@AriPeskoe I've never really understood deficiency letters. They don't identify deficiencies in the filing. Really they reject the filing which would otherwise go into effect under 205(d). One of these days someone's gonna just try to appeal a DL or implement the new tariff.
@NrdcTomr@AriPeskoe Agree, which is what the 'resiliency pricing' obsession ignores. The markets are already pricing in the features they say we aren't. And I expect even if we adopt their proposals, they still would say we are ignoring intermittency.
Among other things, Manchin would get rid of NIETCs and make FERC backstop authority universal, applying to all transmission projects above a voltage threshold.