This week's company briefs include news on TransCanada, Columbia Gas, Calpine, Alevo, Cleco, Peabody Energy.

The increase in wind generation under the Clean Power Plan would likely exceed MISO’s previous assumptions, according to a new study.

This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Obama Administration, EPA, and others.

On-peak day-ahead electricity prices in the U.S. were down 27 to 35% in 2015 due to cheap natural gas, FERC staff said in its State of the Markets report.

FERC gave the go-ahead for American Transmission Company (ATC) and Wisconsin Power & Light (WP&L) to swap a combined $830,000 worth of assets.

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

Much work remains to help Connecticut maintain its energy leadership position, speakers said at the annual CT Power and Energy Society’s Energy, Environment and Development Conference.

Requests for proposals for the next rounds of multi-state clean energy, efficiency and storage energy procurement were released.

This week's state briefs include news on Arkansas, Illinois, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas.

MISO could have a limited set of market rules for energy storage as early as 2017.