Record cold weather and falling natural gas prices helped push AEP’s first quarter earnings up 12%.

Extreme cold helped drive first quarter earnings at two of Michigan’s utilities, though neither DTE Energy nor CMS Energy enjoyed quite the bump as during the polar vortex last year.

This week's federal briefs include news from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Congress.

MISO has declined a request by the Public Consumer Advocates sector for $200,000 to help cover its legal costs in a fight over MISO transmission owners’ return on equity.

The U.S. electric industry will face reliability concerns in four years if the interim goals of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan aren’t relaxed, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said last week.

PJM is considering changing its day-ahead market schedule in response to FERC's April 16 ruling revising the interstate gas nomination timeline.

PJM stakeholders approved tighter rules on generator lost opportunity costs but rejected a proposal to limit eligibility to the most flexible combustion units.

ISO-NE is considering delaying full integration of demand response into its markets by a year due to uncertainty about FERC’s authority over the resource.

This week's state briefs include news on Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.

A summary of measures approved by the PJM Markets and Reliability and Members committees on April 23.