Allco Renewable Energy Group has challenged a three-state effort to bring more renewable energy to New England.

This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of the Interior and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

NYISO can force idled generators to allow use of their interconnections for reliability purposes, FERC ruled last week, saying that such actions do not constitute an unconstitutional “taking” under the Fifth Amendment.

FERC fined Maxim Power $5 million and employee Kyle Mitton was fined $50,000 for overcharging ISO-NE.

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will reconsider the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision threatening the FERC’s authority over demand response.

This week's federal briefs include news from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Congress.

The U.S. electric industry will face reliability concerns in four years if the interim goals of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan aren’t relaxed, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said last week.

FERC today granted PJM’s request to delay May’s capacity auction, allowing the RTO more time to seek commission approval for its Capacity Performance proposal.

The Obama administration’s first Quadrennial Energy Review calls for returning the U.S. to a post-World War II level of investment in infrastructure, spending it says could create 1.5 million jobs while transforming the nation’s electric grid and oil and gas pipelines.

Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA); operators of an Oklahoma coal-fired generator seeking a temporary reprieve from EPA's MATS rule won an assist from FERC.