Exelon worked on several tracks, negotiating settlements with some of those who initially opposed the deal while working to undermine the arguments of those who remained in its way.

FERC gave preliminary approval to the second stage of its reliability standard to protect the grid from geomagnetic disturbances (GMD).

Creditors of the 55-MW Fibrominn power plant — the first in the U.S. designed to burn poultry litter as its primary fuel — have won federal approval to gobble up the Minnesota facility from receivership.

States and federal regulators need to keep consumers in mind when picking jurisdictional fights over control of the electric industry, FERC Commissioner Tony Clark said.

This week's state briefs include news on Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Virginia and Wisconsin.

FERC said single-step discounted cash flow (DCF) analyses that it formerly used are adequate to support rate complaints made before it changed the rules.

This week's company briefs include news on NorthWestern Corp., Duke Energy, FirstEnergy, Allete, Entergy, Consumers Energy and DTE Energy.

PJM also released its response to the Monitor's annual State of the Market Report for last year, as well as its own Annual Report.

At the New England Energy Conference and Exposition, experts said distributed generation isn't leading to a “death spiral” for traditional utilities.

FERC has required NERC to determine the severity of a “benchmark” GMD event — the threshold against which covered entities would evaluate their system’s vulnerability and develop protective strategies.