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NYISO highlights case for carbon pricing days before highly-anticipated FERC conference

Utility Dive: Though NYISO is the only grid operator thus far to have a plan on carbon pricing moved along as far as it has, Dewey said other markets are keeping an eye on the state's progress.

"I know that other grid operators are viewing it very much the same way, where they're starting to recognize increasingly as states adopt more aggressive progressive policies towards the environment and climate change that increasingly, they're looking at the utility sector, the electric sector to help lead them there," he said. "Markets are going to be in the center of all of that. And it's just a matter of are they going to be in the way, or are we going to be using them as the vehicle to lead us there?"

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