CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad said he will recommend the commission abandon its proposal to allow private rights of action against RTOs and ISOs.

AEP (NYSE:AEP) has reached a deal to sell more than 5,000 MW of Ohio and Indiana merchant generation to The Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX) and ArcLight Capital Partners for about $2.2 billion.

RGGI reported another lackluster carbon allowance auction last week, bolstering calls by Mass. and others for more aggressive cuts in the compact’s emission caps.

Mel Coleman, president of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) board of directors, spoke at the Clinton School of Public Service about the association's efforts to expand broadband Internet access and the history of the electric co-op.

MISO and SPP are moving ahead on a joint transmission study focusing on seven projects, staff told stakeholders at a Interregional Planning Stakeholder Advisory Committee meeting.

This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on the Dakota Access pipeline, the Wolf Creek Nuclear Station and EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.

More than 100 generators, consultants, RTO officials and utility executives attended Infocast’s PJM Market Summit 2016.

FERC dismissed a complaint by transmission developers who were excluded from New York public policy projects under Order 1000.

A task force developing cost allocation rules for Southwest Power Pool (SPP) seams projects identified outside the FERC Order 1000 interregional process agreed to take another crack at crafting language more agreeable to stakeholders and staff.

This week's company briefs include news on Macquarie Infrastructure, American Electric Power, NIPSCO, SolarCity, Minnesota Power and Southern Co.