MISO’s South-to-Midwest transfer limit for the 2017/18 Planning Resource Auction (PRA) will be 1,500 MW, an increase of more than 600 MW.

MISO will likely fall back on its existing capacity auction design next year after its competitive retail solution failed to win FERC approval.

ZEC legislation bolstered Exelon's earnings per share and helped save the Clinton nuclear generation plant.

FERC approved a settlement between the city of Rochester, Minn., and the Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency over a CapX2020 transmission project.

The MISO three-year transmission overlay study started with the RTO gathering stakeholders to explain the data that will inform the study.

FERC rejected Big Rivers Electric’s request for a waiver to keep MISO interconnection rights for one of its coal plants through late 2017.

CMS Energy said that 2016 was their best year ever for generation reliability, and boosted earnings for the year to $551 million from $523 million in 2015.

WEC reported net income of $194.4 million for the fourth quarter. The earnings call focused largely on the company’s natural gas initiatives.

Preparing for the loss of its quorum, FERC issued an order delegating additional authority to staff and approved two massive natural gas pipelines.

FERC ruled that MISO unreasonably prevents energy storage from participating in markets other than its regulation market.