On April 16, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued two orders in proceedings related to PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.’s (PJM) Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR). First, FERC denied requests for rehearing and granted limited clarification with respect to its June 29, 2018 order (2018 Paper Hearing Order) where it (i) found PJM’s then-existing tariff to be unjust and unreasonable because it failed to address the suppressive effect of resources receiving out-of-market payments on the capacity market, and (ii) implemented a paper hearing to establish a revised MOPR to apply to both new and existing resources receiving out-of-market payments, regardless of resource type (see July 11, 2018 edition of the WER).
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