Xcel Energy reported fourth-quarter earnings of $189 million ($0.37/share), down 16.7% from the same period last year.

Market participants have united to develop a trio of alternatives to MISO’s plan to crack down on generators that fail to follow dispatch instructions.

MISO is scaling back a proposal to develop a multiday market, opting instead to create multiday forecasts.

The MISO Market Monitor is seeking to use the RTO’s recent refiling of its resource adequacy construct to force a FERC ruling on changing its capacity demand curve.

Preliminary estimates show that MISO’s capacity requirements and available supply for the 2018/19 capacity auction will be in line with last year’s figures.

NRG Energy has agreed to sell its renewables businesses, its interest in NRG Yield and its South Central Generating subsidiary in transactions that will bring the company $2.8 billion in cash and take $7 billion in debt off its books.

Environmental groups have moved to halt an attempted roll-back of Illinois’ emissions standards, which would weaken pollution limits for Dynegy’s coal-fired generation fleet in the state.

MISO has opened a bidding window for its second-ever competitive transmission solicitation, a process required under FERC Order 1000. 

NextEra Energy accused the Nuclear Energy Institute of “extortion,” saying it was spitefully denying the company access to a database used to screen workers.

FERC ordered a technical conference on how PJM, MISO and SPP coordinate generator interconnection studies on projects near their seams.