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This week’s features:

• ISO New England Issues Preliminary Results of Forward Capacity Auction #11

REGIONAL AND INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENTS

ISO New England Issues Preliminary Results of Forward Capacity Auction #11

New England’s eleventh Forward Capacity Market auction (FCA #11) concluded with sufficient resources to meet demand for electricity in the 2020-2021 time frame, closing at a preliminary, system-wide clearing price of $5.30 per kilowatt-month (kW-month). The auction concluded with commitments from 35,835 MW of capacity resources. No major generators retired in FCA #11 and no new large-scale generators cleared in the auction, but 640 megawatts (MW) of new energy-efficiency and demand-reduction measures—the equivalent of a large power plant—cleared and will be available in 2020-2021. ISO New England plans to file the results of the auction with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) later this month.

For more information, see ISO New England’s FCA #11 initial press release: https://www.iso-ne.com/static-assets/documents/2017/02/20170209_FCA11_initial_pr.pdf.  

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