Entergy Arkansas and Entergy Mississippi will pay $32.6 million to their sister companies under a bandwidth recalculation report approved by FERC.

FERC said it expects sufficient resources to meet peak electric demand this summer despite coal-fired retirements, while NERC approved its summer reliability assessment.

About 50 people attended a FERC scoping meeting on the Atlantic Bridge Project, which would expand the Algonquin pipeline.

This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Energy Department.

FERC denied an application by Northern States Power to terminate its mandatory purchase obligation from Twin Cities Hydro.

FERC proposed Thursday to change when it assesses annual charges to hydropower operators that are not state and municipal entities.

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.