FERC approved Wabash Valley Power Association’s acquisition of a 5% interest in two 800-MW coal-fired units  for $57 million.

FERC rejected METC’s rehearing request regarding a western Michigan wind farm’s interconnection agreement with MISO.

A federal appeals court upheld FERC Order 1000's right-of-first-refusal provisions, rejecting challenges from transmission owners and developers.

GridEx III, a drill to test the emergency response capabilities of the North American high-voltage power grid, highlighted several vulnerabilities in the face of a simulated cyberattack.

This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on The Clean Power Plan, the EPA, NASA, and other federal agencies.

FERC told MISO that they must charge equal interconnection fees to all generators entering its queue regardless of whether they are internal, external, new or existing resources.

The CFTC proposed that electric capacity purchases and natural gas peaking supply contracts be exempt from regulation as swaps.

FERC granted Missouri River Energy Services an extension to comment on a series of “zonal agreements” submitted by ALLETE and Great River Energy.

The MISO day-ahead market schedule may continue to use EST instead of EPT even as the RTO alters scheduling deadlines to comply with updated gas nomination cycles.

The U.S. Department of Energy said it would participate in the development of Clean Line Energy Partners Plains & Eastern transmission project.