Two studies released last week came to opposite conclusions on the need for additional natural gas pipelines in New England.

IMEA has been working with PJM staff all year to find a way to continue using external capacity to fulfill its internal resource requirements.

MISO officials outlined proposals to boost its capacity resources, winning support for efforts to streamline the generator interconnection process and redraw its zonal boundaries to reflect constraints.

MISO staff will seek board approval in December for about 352 transmission projects totaling $2.4 billion in its 2015 Transmission Expansion Plan.

A summary of measures approved by the PJM Markets and Reliability Committee on Aug. 27, 2015.

The New York PSC asked NYISO to perform reliability studies in western New York after NRG Energy announced it was retiring one coal plant and suspending plans to convert another to natural gas.

Capacity Performance resources cleared at $134/MW-day in the transition auction for the 2016/17 delivery year, PJM announced Monday.

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.

The NYPSC approved a temporary surcharge while a final agreement to keep the R.E. Ginna nuclear plant operating is hammered out.

ERCOT has set three new hourly peaks, topping 69,000 MW in demand for the first time ever on Aug. 10.