FERC rejected complaints from NextEra Energy and Direct Energy seeking to change the way PJM conducts its incremental capacity auctions to transition to its new Capacity Performance product.

MISO planners who just completed the third phase of a study on the Clean Power Plan said last week that a “multibillion dollar” transmission build-out will be necessary in almost every compliance scenario they’ve anticipated.

This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on the Energy Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture and NOAA.

Maxim Power wants to FERC drop two other allegations or combine them with the original complaint.

FERC last week approved bylaw changes allowing SPP to add up to three seats to the RTO’s Board of Directors.

Attorneys general from 15 states asked a federal court in D.C. to block the Clean Power Plan.

This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Energy Department.

Clean energy technologies like wind power are seen as beneficiaries of the Clean Power Plan.

State and RTO officials have had two weeks to digest EPA's final Clean Power Plan and the battle lines — and paths to compliance — are developing.

Dynegy told FERC it should reject complaints over its bidding in MISO’s capacity auction last April, saying the challenges suffer from a “fatal” procedural flaw.