Wholesale Markets

Dr. Mathew Morey presents on "Ensuring Adequate Power Supplies for Tomorrow's Electricity Needs"

Categories: Market Design, Wholesale Markets

November 12, 2014

Dr. Mathew Morey and Bruce Edelston, Director of the Electric Markets Research Foundation (EMRF) led a webinar summarizing CA Energy Consulting's recent report for EMRF entitled "Ensuring Adequate Power Supplies for Tomorrow's Electricity Needs".

Continue Reading


Ensuring Adequate Power Supplies for Tomorrow's Electricity Needs

Categories: Market Design, Wholesale Markets

June 16, 2014 - Kelly Eakin and Robert Camfield

The Electric Markets Research Foundation commissioned CA Energy Consulting to examine the ability of the U.S. electric power industry to build and maintain sufficient electric generating capacity to meet the country’s present and future needs.

   View PDF


There Is No Need to Fix What Is Not Broken

Categories: Market Design, Wholesale Markets

September 20, 2012

Dr. Mathew Morey and Dr. Laurence Kirsch, on behalf of The American Public Power Association (APPA), National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), and the New York Association of Public Power (NYAPP), studied the capacity market operated by the New York System Operator (NYISO). In the study, the authors find that there is no need to fix what is not broken. The existing capacity market structure has provided generation capacity where it is most highly valued, using diverse fuels and meeting a variety of renewable resources and environmental policy goals. This success has been achieved without resorting to a mandatory forward market such as those used by PJM and ISO-New England. The current design does not require replacement by a mandatory forward centralized capacity market.

Continue Reading


CA Energy Consulting Produces Report on Market Structures and Planning Processes in the Eastern Interconnection

Categories: Wholesale Markets

March 26, 2012 - Brad Wagner

CA Energy Consulting, in collaboration with Energy Policy Group, has recently produced a report on behalf of the Eastern Interconnection States’ Planning Council and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. This report assembles information from a wide variety of sources, and compares wholesale market structures, transmission planning processes, and state laws and regulations in the Eastern Interconnection. The information and comparisons will help state regulators understand how market structures and state rules may affect incentives for and barriers to generation and transmission investments.

Continue Reading


Mathew Morey Presents a Transmission Cost Allocation "Reasonableness Assessment" to SPP

Categories: Transmission, Wholesale Markets

September 22, 2011

CA Energy Consulting's Mathew Morey appeared before the Southwest Power Pool's Regional Allocation Review Task Force (RARTF) in September, 2011. At the behest of several Nebraska utilities, Dr. Morey developed an approach to conducting such a "reasonableness assessment" of zonal allocations of transmission investments.

Continue Reading