FirstEnergy and AEP's CEOs told analysts and investors at the EEI Financial Conference that they expect the PUCO to rule on their requests for above-market power purchase agreements with their generators late this year or early in 2016.

This week's company briefs include news on AEP, DTE Energy, Xcel Energy, TXU Energy, Duke Energy and Talen Energy.

FERC denied requests by Texas and Louisiana regulators for rehearing of its December 2013 order approving the Entergy operating companies’ incorporation into MISO.

Critics of Exelon’s proposed acquisition of Pepco Wednesday questioned the timing of a $25 million naming rights deal that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser finalized days before dropping her opposition to the merger.

New York transmission owners filed a proposed settlement with FERC establishing the cost allocation and rate of return for three transmission projects.

The Energy Department recommended approval of a presidential permit for the New England Clean Power Link, which would transmit 1,000 MW of Canadian hydropower into New England.

Spectra Energy’s Algonquin Gas Transmission asked FERC to grant permission for the pre-filing review on the proposed Access Northeast project by Nov. 13.

A summary of issues discussed by the SPP Board of Directors and Members Committee at their quarterly and annual meetings, including the 2017 ITP10 and the enhanced combined-cycle project.

The SPP board and Members Committee got down to the sticky business of deciding how — and to whom — to distribute the settlement’s funds during its quarterly meeting.

Mike Ross rejoined SPP last December as a senior vice president of government affairs and public relations, helping set up the RTO's first governmental affairs conference in D.C.