American Electricity Markets Library

Texas 

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.