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PJM will implement a new process for ensuring compliance with training and certification requirements effective Feb. 1. The Operating Committee unanimously approved changes to Manual 40 to enable the new process, which stems from an August problem statement to improve compliance by generation dispatchers, demand response providers and energy storage...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO stakeholders Monday laid the foundation for the Resource Adequacy Subcommittee (RASC), hammering out a rough mission statement and management plan while determining it should report to the Advisory Committee. The work took place during the first of a two-day work session of...

Eversource Energy and National Grid have completed a three-state $483 million transmission project to serve southern New England. The Interstate Reliability Project included station upgrades and the installation of a new 345-kV transmission line along 75 miles of existing rights of way in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. “The Interstate...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — With one energy storage project under construction and several others being considered, MISO is beginning a look at rule changes needed to accommodate the emerging technology. One fundamental question MISO will have to answer is whether storage will be considered generation or categorized...

By Aaron Tinjum There were a number of major energy developments in 2015, including historically low oil prices, record levels of natural gas in storage, major policy and regulatory changes, and a groundbreaking international climate agreement. We’ve assembled some of the most telling energy statistics to help highlight some of...

Floods closed segments of the Illinois and Mississippi rivers to navigation in the St. Louis area and forced Ameren to use ferries to gets its workers to a stranded power station. The flooding also caused Enbridge and Spectra Energy to shut down oil pipelines until the waters recede. Workers at...

Iberdrola USA and UIL Holdings have closed their merger and adopted “Avangrid” as the name for the U.S. operations arm of Spanish conglomerate Iberdrola. It began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday under the symbol AGR. The combined company has eight electric and natural gas utilities with...

FERC last week proposed reducing the amount of ownership information that companies must provide to obtain market-based rate authority. The commission allows companies to sell power at market-based rates if they and their affiliates lack, or have adequately mitigated, horizontal and vertical market power. Current rules require applicants to describe...

Texas congestion caused by outages and Minnesota’s under-scheduling of wind resources were the lone causes for concern in an otherwise stable quarter bolstered by mild temperatures, MISO’s Independent Market Monitor reported at last week’s Markets Committee of the Board of Directors. Monitor David Patton said that at the beginning of...

The landmark climate deal reached in Paris on Saturday will have wide-ranging impacts on utilities and other industries, analysts say. More than 190 countries pledged to reduce their emissions of carbon and other heat-trapping gases following two weeks of negotiations. Investment funds will move their portfolios from coal and oil...