This week's state briefs include news on California, Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and others.

FERC dismissed a complaint by SMECO alleging that it has the right to a Capacity Performance credit from J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corp.

ISO-NE will issue more than $20 million in refunds to resources that were prevented from reducing their capacity offers in FCA 1.

Former Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) Chairman Andre Porter is crossing state lines to become general counsel at MISO.

The Texas PUC unanimously agreed to deny all motions for rehearing in Hunt Consolidated’s proposed acquisition of Oncor.

Omaha Public Power District is recommending that its Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station end operations by the end of 2016.

The prevailing opinion at the Infocast California Energy Summit was that solar is the generation of choice now in the state.

The proposed New York Clean Energy Standard was the main topic of discussion at the Independent Power Producers of New York’s annual spring conference.

Stakeholders discussed the potential impact of the Clean Power Plan (CPP) on California and the West at the Infocast California Energy Summit.

Utilities tried to convince FERC at a technical conference that the release of natural gas capacity to generators would alleviate supply constraints.