Opposition Emerges to Southeast Energy Exchange Market

By Rich Heidorn Jr. · RTO Insider

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Stakeholders including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy filed comments with FERC opposing the proposed Southeast Energy Exchange Market (SEEM), arguing it lacks sufficient transparency, governance protections, and competitive safeguards. SACE and allied groups contended that SEEM would increase monopoly utility market power while disadvantaging independent power producers and clean energy resources. The article covers multiple stakeholder positions on the SEEM filing, with SACE's joint protest quoted directly.

Instead of embracing meaningful reform, the SEEM proposal represents an incremental improvement to coordination that comes at much too great a cost and risk: increasing the market power of monopoly utilities, disadvantaging clean independent power producers seeking transmission access and reducing transparency and oversight
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