Sameer H. Doshi

Energy lawyer, ex-schoolteacher, hoops fan, dad of two s̵m̵a̵l̵l̵ ̵o̵n̵e̵s̵ medium ones. Speak only for myself, and not about my job.

[Sameer H. Doshi @SameerHDoshi]

@TKavulla MISO also removed energy efficiency resources from the capacity auction, beginning with planning year 2026-2027. The change was approved by FERC late last year: https://t.co/hvWDJDoKJc

[Sameer H. Doshi @SameerHDoshi]

@KevinSKrause @EnergyLawJeff As observed in practice across many states, some have that and some don't. :-)

Note column S of this roundup list (which I didn't compile): https://t.co/et21tAdlHU

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@KevinSKrause @EnergyLawJeff Sure, you can write a long-term contract (which is probably better than no contract), but the customer-level entity could still disappear at any time. So it’s important to have credit support (LC or guarantee), ideally from a wealthy parent company.

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@nyttypos @anniekarni @nytimes Microsoft Word makes it difficult to do a regular curly apostrophe at the beginning of a word like that (another example is if you want to write a decade, like ‘90s). You have to fight with the software to cooperate.

[Sameer H. Doshi @SameerHDoshi]

@EnergyLawJeff customer could vanish prematurely before the asset cost is fully paid over ~30 years.

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@EnergyLawJeff A utility could directly charge a large retail customer — including a rate of return — for the full cost of new assets, keeping that out of general rate base.

But then (supporting your point) there’s a risk (for both the utility and general customers) that the large new
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@MikeJShowalter @OrinKerr I'm not sure how to order these factors, but:

1. The younger researcher wants (in most cases) the public credit.

2. It's the right thing to do, to give the deserved credit.

3. Listing human author(s) grants some accountability & places them amidst the ongoing scholarly convo.

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@MikeJShowalter @OrinKerr That sounds unlikely (seems like an unfortunate situation for the junior attorney if s/he gets roped into helping with a publication that s/he doesn't want to be associated with) but sure, it's possible.

But in most cases, we know who developed the article's ideas and prose.

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@PipelineFlows Joliet, IL is part of the Commonwealth Edison/ PJM territory, not MISO (unless there's something in your assumptions I'm missing).

Joliet was home to a coal power plant (later converted to gas) owned by ComEd, then Edison Int'l, then NRG, retired in 2023. And definitely in PJM.

[Sameer H. Doshi @SameerHDoshi]

@TKavulla @JohnVaillant https://t.co/haLmLaLU8g

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@TKavulla https://t.co/Yb9P3caK3P

https://t.co/gb4kU7JsrN

https://t.co/IsiLQHhPZ3
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[Sameer H. Doshi @SameerHDoshi]

@TKavulla In 2023, the IL legis created an equally sized $200MM pot of money from taxpayer funds to give all Ameren Illinois resi & small comm electric customers an equal per-customer credit, responding to high prices due to the MISO 2022-23 capacity auction & the Russia-Ukraine war.
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[Sameer H. Doshi @SameerHDoshi]

@AriPeskoe and footnote 204 specifically calls out PJM's tariffed "Supplemental Projects" category.
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@AriPeskoe The "local problems" / "applications that do not originate with RTO regional planning" carveout on pages 56-57 seems like it could be hard to apply to every RTO's protocols, although as you note, this decision only covers Third Circuit states, which are entirely in PJM,
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@Ben_Inskeep I believe this happened before (Indy 500 and Pacers ECF home game on the same Sunday) in 1999, 2004, and 2013.

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@EconBerger Aretha Franklin invented that. But, my 11-year-old does not love Aretha quite the same as Chappell.

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@hikerscifidg @drvolts Interconnection costs for new large customers (if they connect to the Dist grid) that we'll see in coming years will also push up these numbers (the customers will pay some of the cost and some of it will be socialized, but I assume all of that would go into numbers like this).

[Sameer H. Doshi @SameerHDoshi]

@drvolts In addition to general price inflation of labor & equipment, we've had (depending on the state) advanced metering installation, grid hardening for storm resiliency, more tree trimming, more DER interconnections.

[Sameer H. Doshi @SameerHDoshi]

@jefftomich @cece_coffey That is the correct link, but here's an alternative link that doesn't have Blob in the URL 🤣
https://t.co/PCTiUqFvOy