This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on the EPA, the Canadian election's impact on Keystone, climate change and a dispute between two states.
A senior EPA official and a panel of legal experts gave their own opinions at Infocast’s second Clean Power Plan Summit in Washington last week.
Industry representatives and those that regulate or work with them gathered here last week to discuss the Clean Power Plan and its implications.
MISO's Board of Directors voted to switch to a quarterly meeting schedule from its current every-other-month calendar, a change likely to also be adopted by the Advisory Committee.
MISO is cool and collected heading into the winter, staff told the Markets Committee of the Board of Directors.
MISO officials asked FERC staff last week to trust in its stakeholder process and not force capacity market changes that could increase exports.
The R.E. Ginna nuclear plant and Rochester Gas & Electric have reached an agreement to provide a financial lifeline for the plant through March 2017, 18 months earlier than originally proposed.
FERC approved a MISO compliance filing regarding its cost allocation method for resources committed for voltage or local reliability (VLR) requirements.
FERC denied multiple requests for rehearing and clarification of its 2014 order that conditionally approved the core Integrated System entities’ SPP membership.
The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will rule on two federal-state jurisdictional cases pitting New Jersey and Maryland regulators against FERC.
