[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 120 (Friday, June 21, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37537-37538]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-14886]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. AD13-7-000]


Centralized Capacity Markets in Regional Transmission 
Organizations and Independent System Operators; Notice of Technical 
Conference

    Take notice that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
(Commission) staff will hold a technical conference on centralized 
capacity markets in Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent 
System Operators (RTOs/ISOs) (centralized capacity markets). The 
technical conference will take place on September 25, 2013 beginning at 
9:00 a.m. and ending at approximately 5:00 p.m. The conference will be 
held at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., 
Washington, DC 20426. All interested persons are invited to participate 
at the conference. Commission members may participate in the 
conference.
    The purpose of the technical conference is to consider how current 
centralized capacity market rules and structures are supporting the 
procurement and retention of resources necessary to meet future 
reliability and operational needs. Since their establishment, 
centralized capacity markets have continued to evolve. Meanwhile, the 
mix of resources is also evolving in response to changing market 
conditions, including low natural gas prices, state and federal 
policies encouraging the entry of renewable resources and other 
specific technologies, and the retirement of aging generation 
resources. This changing resource mix may result in future reliability 
and operational needs that are different than those of the past. In 
addition, some states have pursued individual resource adequacy 
policies to ensure the development of new resources in particular areas 
or with particular characteristics, and questions

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have been raised as to how those individual policies can be 
accommodated in centralized capacity markets.
    The Commission has addressed a number of these issues in specific 
cases, based on the facts and circumstances presented in a given case 
and the particular centralized capacity market design implemented by 
individual regions. This technical conference will provide an 
opportunity to review at a high level the centralized capacity market 
rules and structures, and will examine how these markets are 
accomplishing their intended goals and objectives through a 
competitive, market-based process. Recognizing and respecting 
differences across the markets, the technical conference will focus on 
the goals and objectives of existing centralized capacity markets 
(e.g., resource adequacy, long-term price signals, fixed-cost recovery, 
etc.) and examine how specific design elements are accomplishing 
existing and emerging goals and objectives (e.g., forward period, 
commitment period, product definition and specificity, market power 
mitigation, etc.).
    A supplemental notice will be issued prior to the technical 
conference with further details regarding the agenda and organization 
of the technical conference, as well as information regarding interest 
in speaking at the technical conference. Those interested in attending 
the technical conference are encouraged to register at the following 
Web page: https://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/registration/cap-markets-09-25-13-form.asp
    The technical conference will not be transcribed. However, there 
will be a free webcast of the conference. The webcast will allow 
persons to listen to the technical conference, but not participate.
    Anyone with Internet access who wants to listen to the conference 
can do so by navigating to www.ferc.gov's Calendar of Events and 
locating the technical conference in the Calendar. The technical 
conference will contain a link to its webcast. The Capitol Connection 
provides technical support for the webcast and offers the option of 
listening to the meeting via phone-bridge for a fee. If you have any 
questions, visit www.CapitolConnection.org or call 703-993-3100.
    FERC conferences are accessible under section 508 of the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations please 
send an email to [email protected] or call toll free (866) 208-
3372 (voice) or (202) 502-8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208-2106 
with the requested accommodations.
    For more information about the technical conference, please 
contact:

Shiv Mani (Technical Information), Office of Energy Policy and 
Innovation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., 
Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-8240, [email protected]:
Eric Eversole (Legal Information), Office of General Counsel, Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 
20426, (202) 502-8697, [email protected].
Sarah McKinley (Logistical Information), Office of External Affairs, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, 
DC 20426, (202) 502-8004, [email protected].

    Dated: June 17, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-14886 Filed 6-20-13; 8:45 am]
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