FERC approved MISO's rate schedules for the system support resource agreements at three aging power plants on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

This week's state briefs include news on Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Bradley C. Jones will take over as CEO of NYISO on Oct. 12, as the New York power market faces a proposed overhaul led by the state’s governor and utility regulators.

PJM is prepared to meet this winter’s load — even if it’s a bit higher than the record peak seen last season.

SPP's Clean Power Plan Task Force was given an advance look at a webinar that will open the dialogue with state and utility officials charged with implementing the EPA's emissions rule.

PJM staff, stakeholders, financiers, regulators and industry leaders debated the effects of environmental rules and RTO policies on the capacity market, reliability and investments at Infocast’s PJM Market Summit 2015.

Iberdrola USA and UIL Holdings have agreed to clean up an abandoned power plant site in New Haven if Connecticut regulators approve their proposed $3 billion merger.

FERC said it will require NERC to provide the commission access to its databases in what Chairman Norman Bay said is an effort to apply “Moneyball” techniques to reliability.

ISO-NE will again rely on the winter reliability program it has used for the last two winters, which gives oil generators incentives to secure fuel at the beginning of the winter.

PJM, MISO and ISO-NE would be forced to switch to 5-minute settlements under a draft rule announced Thursday.