AEP went before PUCO in a rare oral argument to support its request for a power purchase agreement for the Kyger Creek power plant.

NC WARN asked FERC to force Duke and other utilities in the Southeast to form a RTO to share power reserves, rather than keep building new plants and boosting prices to pay for them.

New York regulators have doubled the cap on the amount of solar energy the state’s utilities are required to purchase under its net metering program.

FERC last week approved Duke Energy Progress’ $1.2 billion purchase of 700 MW of generation from the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency.

Md. PSC staff said Exelon should increase its proposed credit to customers as a condition of approval of the company's merger with Pepco, while the OPC said the commission should reject the deal.

State officials filed a new complaint in their nearly two-year effort to force a reduction in the formula transmission rates for BGE and Pepco utilities.

The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority cut the CL&P proposed distribution rate increase by 41% in a draft decision.

News briefs on companies doing business with RTOs. This week we include NextEra, Ameren, Xcel, PSE&G and Dominion.

FERC approved a revised JOA between PJM and Duke Energy Progress despite protests from the RTO’s IMM that it gives Duke favored treatment on interchange pricing.

The DOJ is investigating the interconnection process in PJM’s MAAC sub-region as part of its anti-trust review of Exelon’s $6.8 billion takeover of Pepco.