PJM Files Two Alternate Proposals To Address State-Subsidized Resources In Capacity Markets

On April 9, 2018, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. ("PJM") filed two alternative proposals to address supply-side state subsidies that, as PJM argues, could otherwise depress prices in PJM's capacity market, the Reliability Pricing Model ("RPM"). As presented by PJM, its "Capacity Repricing" proposal would establish a two-stage capacity market to accommodate subsidized resources, while the other proposal, the "MOPR-Ex proposal," would expand PJM's use of the Minimum Offer Price Rule ("MOPR") to address subsidized resource entry. With PJM's filing, the issue of how to address out-of-market capacity market subsidies returns again to FERC exactly one month after a divided Commission approved a similar filing from the ISO New England Inc. ("ISO-NE") (see March 20, 2018 edition of the WER).