The Maryland PSC approved Skipjack Offshore Energy’s decision to use fewer, larger turbines and rejecting Ocean City objections.

The Maryland PSC approved a settlement allowing Transource Energy to move forward with its Independence Energy Connection transmission project.

Analyses that predict increased costs for regions that exit PJM’s capacity market should be redone to presume maximizing imports to counter local market power.

PJM’s Monitor defended a conclusion that ratepayers are likely to see cost increases in jurisdictions that exit the capacity market and adopt the FRR option.

The need for gas peakers and electric transmission and the increasing popularity of hybrid storage projects were recurrent topics at the ACORE Policy Forum.

A PJM official urged officials to embrace carbon pricing rather than exit the capacity market in response to FERC expanding the minimum offer price rule.

Transource Energy’s alternative configuration for its Independence Energy Connection project doesn’t pass PJM’s cost-benefit test, LS Power said.

Transource Energy filed a reconfigured version of the Independence Energy Connection project with Maryland regulators as part of a settlement with state officials and landowners.

PJM’s state advocates and regulators want the organization to focus on external candidates as it continues the search for a new CEO.

Landowners united against Transource Energy's Independence Energy Connection said they doubt an alternate plan would be more costly, as PJM says.