FERC Chairman Cheryl LaFleur called an unscheduled recess to the commission’s monthly open meeting Thursday due to a series of interruptions by protesters.

FERC approved a revised reliability standard proposed by NERC that requires testing and maintenance of auto-reclosing relays.

FERC last week approved new rules governing how transmission customers can challenge formula rate filings by MISO transmission owners.

FERC found that PJM partially complied with its second Order 1000 compliance order and conditionally approved MISO's third-round compliance filings.

News briefs on the federal agencies that impact those doing business in the RTO footprints. This week we include the NRC and the Department of the Interior.

A study on gas-electric coordination suggests natural gas pipeline operators create an ISO to coordinate communications with electric grid operators.

FERC rejected a request from IMEA for an extended waiver that would allow it to use capacity resources outside of the ComEd LDA to meet its internal resource requirement in serving its load.

FERC said last week that it intends to tighten the rules on the use of hold harmless commitments in support of merger applications.

News briefs on the federal agencies that impact those doing business in the RTO footprints. This week we include FERC, the Energy Department and the NRC.

FERC has approved changes to NYISO credit requirements to protect the ISO from defaults by market participants that under-forecast their loads.