This week's state briefs include news on California, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Two former Ohio regulators debated FirstEnergy’s and AEP’s controversial PPAs in the opening session of the MACRUC Annual Education Conference.

The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests has appealed the dismissal of its complaint against Northern Pass.

The reason for states’ halting progress on time-of-use rates was the subject of a session at MACRUC's 21st Annual Education Conference.

More than 300 regulators, PJM officials and industry stakeholders attended MACRUC’s 21st Annual Education Conference.

CAISO stepped up efforts to convert skeptics of a Western RTO, convening a forum in Denver to discuss a proposed set of governing principles.

Hunt Consolidated renewed its bid for Texas utility Oncor with a lawsuit alleging errors by the Texas PUC in an order on the deal.

PG&E (NYSE:PCG) will shut down Diablo Canyon, CA’s last nuclear power plant under an agreement with environmental, labor and anti-nuclear coalition.

Groups opposing FirstEnergy's plan to win subsidies from Ohio regulators asked FERC to again intervene in the dispute.

The Delaware House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution aimed at blocking a proposed stability fix for Artificial Island.