Multiple stakeholders have requested rehearing of FERC's order that MISO could no longer allocate broadly the SSR costs of keeping Presque Isle open.

PJM members were asked last week to consider allowing generators to revise their offers hourly in the energy market to reflect changes in gas prices.

This week's company briefs include AEP, Xcel, Dominion, Direct Energy, PECO, Exelon, NRG and General Electric.

FERC last week approved a MISO proposal to exempt some owners of retiring coal plants from capacity deficiency penalties.

This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on the NRC, Harry Reid, Mark Warner, the Department of Energy and the BOEM.

A labor council representing New York utility workers is worried that the state’s path-breaking initiatives in the smart grid, distributed energy resources and energy storage are taking attention away from overdue needs for transmission upgrades in the state.

A meeting among the New England congressional delegation, ISO-NE and FERC Chairman Cheryl LaFleur ended the way that it started: with LaFleur and the RTO defending rising capacity prices and the delegation unhappy.

The MISO Market Monitor says transmission loading relief requests attributed to a TVA constraint are causing price volatility within the RTO.

The NYPSC says the FERC’s recent order on reliability-must-run agreements “interferes” with state authority as it tries to address generation shortages in the state.

AEP and FirstEnergy's plans to shut down coal-fired generation under the EPA’s MATS won't change even if the Supreme Court throws out the standards.