American Electricity Markets Library
Texas
Debate on capacity markets
PJM
Documents from the Brattle Group:
"Battle Lines Form over Market Solutions to Electricity Needs," E&E, June 2014.
Other
Debate on capacity markets
- Texas Coalition for Affordable Power, "A Retreat from Electric Competition," December 2013.
- Texas Industrial Energy Consumers, TPUC filing on capacity markets, September 2013.
- Texas Public Policy Foundation, Reforming Texas Electricity Markets, Summer 2013.
- Public Citizen, A Texas Electric Capacity Market: The Wrong Tool for a Real Problem, by IEEFA, February 2013.
- Brattle Group report for the Texas PUC, Estimating the Economically Optimal Reserve Margin in ERCOT, January 2014.
- "Texas and the Capacity Market Debate," POWER, February 1, 2014.
- Regulatory Assistance Project, TPUC filing, October 2012.
- Commissioner Kenneth Anderson, "The Nature of ERCOT's Capacity Reserve Margin," presentation to Restructuring Today webinar, January 2014.
- The Operating Reserve Demand Curve explained: A fact sheet from ERCOT explaining the ORDC, which is intended to reduce the volatility of price spikes and encourage new resources.
PJM
Documents from the Brattle Group:
- A Comparison of PJM’s RPM with Alternative Energy and Capacity Market Designs, September 2009
- Characteristics of Successful Capacity Markets, October 2013.
- Outlook on Fundamentals in PJM’s Energy and Capacity Markets, August 2013.
"Battle Lines Form over Market Solutions to Electricity Needs," E&E, June 2014.
Other
- "Marginal Success," Platt's Insight, December 2013.
- Distributed Generation's Future Impact on the US Capacity Markets, ICF International, 2014.