Electricity Market Reform
What is Electricity Market Reform?
What are the benefits of reform?
EMR is designed to:
Keep the lights on
Minimize the cost of electricity to consumers
Electricity Market Reform: Capacity market
What is the capacity market?
Capacity represents the need to have adequate generating resources to ensure that the demand for electricity can always be met. In a capacity market the utility or other electricity supplier are required to have enough resources to meet its customers' demand plus a reserve amount.