Natural gas demand and production both set records in 2014, while gas trading declined for the fourth straight year, FERC reported last week.

The Connecticut Department of Energy issued its IRP last week, warning of natural gas pipeline constraints and stiffer competition for renewable resources.

Opponents of the Constitution Pipeline have threatened to go to court next week to force FERC to reconsider its approval of the project.

FERC said it is trying to craft the its role in administering a “safety valve” to ensure reliability is not threatened by the EPA's Clean Power Plan.

Witnesses from the Southeast generally expressed far more concern than their counterparts in the Northeast during FERC’s technical conference on the EPA Clean Power Plan.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Jim Inhofe, heard criticism and praise of the EPA's Clean Power Plan from state officials.

Representatives of PJM, ISO-NE and NYISO told FERC they are prepared to implement their states’ plans for complying with EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan.

ISO-NE must find a market-based solution for ensuring adequate generation by next winter, the FERC said last week in a clarification of a previous order.

The mild winter that has moderated energy prices in New England shouldn’t lull policy makers into complacence, ISO-NE CEO Gordon van Welie said.

A study on gas-electric coordination suggests natural gas pipeline operators create an ISO to coordinate communications with electric grid operators.