A FERC judge ruled that Shell and Iberdrola  saddled California consumers with $1.1 billion in excess energy costs at the height of the Western Energy Crisis.

This week's state briefs include news on California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri,and others.

A new CAISO Tariff provision would enable rooftop solar and other small distributed energy resources (DER) to participate in the markets.