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By William Opalka For the second time in seven months, FERC declined on Thursday to intervene in a renewable energy developer’s claims against Connecticut regulators (EL16-69). The commission declined to begin an enforcement action under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act on behalf of Allco Finance and its unit Windham...

By William Opalka Disregarding its staff’s recommendation, Maine’s Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday endorsed a plan in which electric ratepayers would help finance natural gas pipeline expansion (2014-00071). PUC staff said last month that ratepayer subsidies were unnecessary because market conditions have changed dramatically since 2013, when the proposal was...

By William Opalka MARLBOROUGH, Mass. — New England states are moving ahead with their own greenhouse gas reduction programs while EPA’s Clean Power Plan remains in legal limbo. At the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association Annual Environmental Conference on Wednesday, panelists said that the nine-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative remains...

Mary Beth Gentleman, a former co-chair of the energy practice at law firm Foley Hoag and current Hillary Clinton volunteer, said that the presumptive Democratic nominee for president would likely have coattails if elected, resulting in a switch to a Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate, but a takeover of the U.S. House...

By William Opalka After more than two contentious years of ordering ISO-NE and the New England Power Pool to design sloped zonal demand curves for its constrained zones, FERC last week accepted a compliance filing that does that and also modifies the systemwide demand curve. The changes will be effective...

By William Opalka State regulators on Friday approved Public Service Company of New Hampshire’s divestiture of the Merrimack Station and other generation assets, ending a 20-year odyssey that began with the state’s Electric Utility Restructuring Act of 1996 (DE 11-250, DE 14-238). The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission’s order approves...

By William Opalka Hydro-Quebec and Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH) filed a 20-year power purchase agreement with New Hampshire regulators on Tuesday that promises to deliver at least 100 MW of energy during peak hours over the Northern Pass transmission line (DE 16-693). PSNH parent Eversource Energy hopes...

By William Opalka NEW YORK — Whether the view is from PJM, which sits atop the Utica and Marcellus shale gas formations, or ISO-NE, at the “end of the pipeline,” the so-called “dash to gas” shows no sign of abating, speakers said Friday at the Energy Bar Association Northeast Chapter’s...

By William Opalka Two generation owners on Friday petitioned FERC to block New England states’ efforts to have electric ratepayers underwrite the cost of expanded natural gas pipelines (EL16-93). NextEra Energy and Public Service Enterprise Group said the proposals by state regulators to release natural gas capacity to electric distribution...

By William Opalka The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests has appealed the dismissal of its complaint against the Northern Pass transmission project to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. The Coos County Superior Court last month dismissed the group’s suit, which sought to prevent the burial of lines...