By Suzanne Herel FERC on Thursday called for an investigation into four interstate natural gas pipelines that it believes might be charging shippers in PJM, ISO-NE, NYISO and CAISO too much. The pipelines — Empire Pipeline (RP16-300-000), Iroquois Gas Transmission System (RP16-301-000), Columbia Gulf Transmission (RP16-302-000) and Tuscarora Gas Transmission...

OKLAHOMA CITY — SPP’s Strategic Planning Committee last week agreed to allow its Clean Power Plan Task Force to go dormant after endorsing its comments to EPA. The committee agreed with Chair Mike Wise’s recommendation during its Jan. 14 meeting that the task force, which developed one white paper comparing...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will ask FERC for an April 1 effective date on its new ramp capability software, RTO officials said Friday. Chatterjee (© RTO Insider) Dhiman Chatterjee, MISO’s senior manager of market analysis, said he expected the commission to approve the request, which will...

By Michael Brooks RTOs and ISOs will take part in 15 research and development projects awarded almost $38 million in funding by the Energy Department last week. U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz last week announced $220 million in funding as part of the Energy Department’s Grid Modernization Initiative, an effort...

Thomas Klink has been named CFO of Pioneer Power Solutions, a Fort Lee, N.J., manufacturer of electric transmission, distribution and generation equipment. He takes the place of Andrew Minkow, who left to pursue other opportunities. Klink was formerly president of Jefferson Electric, a Pioneer Power subsidiary in Franklin, Wis., that...

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...