Nonutility buyers have contracted for more than 3.5 GW of renewable energy in 2018, the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Business Renewables Center reported.

FERC wants PJM’s capacity rules to be resolved by Jan. 4 and has dispatched staff to help the RTO and its stakeholders adhere to that timeline.

PJM and FERC must reconsider how they allocate the costs of high-voltage transmission projects developed to satisfy individual utilities’ planning criteria.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the cost allocation for the Presque Isle system support resource agreements to Michigan Upper Peninsula consumers.

Cheryl LaFleur, who has been attending the FERC reliability technical conference since her appointment, always opens the meeting by citing something special about each year’s gathering.

Environmentalists and industrial consumers challenged a DOE-funded study that concludes U.S. economic growth would be boosted by unlimited LNG exports.

FERC granted AEP Energy Partners’ request to transmit power between ERCOT and Mexico over existing DC tie connections.

A D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel declined to review FERC’s approval of plans to expand capacity on the Algonquin Natural Gas pipeline.

Infocast’s first SPP and MISO Markets Summit attracted participants and industry representatives from the RTOs’ footprints for panel discussions.

FERC received about 2,000 comments on its Notice of Inquiry about how it balances natural gas pipeline project benefits against adverse consequences.