NYISO board approves 2012 Comprehensive Reliability Plan
Houston (Platts)
The board of directors for the New York Independent System Operator on Friday approved the 2012 Comprehensive Reliability Plan, which concludes that sufficient market-based, regulated backstop and alternative regulated solutions have been proposed to meet identified reliability needs through 2022.
“Given the expanding universe of potential risks to system reliability that are outside of our control, a robust planning process is absolutely critical,” said NYISO President and CEO Stephen G. Whitley in a press release Friday. “Factors such as extreme weather conditions, public policy revisions and dynamic economic…