Entergy’s request for a $187 million transmission upgrade near Lake Charles, La., will receive a “full review” by MISO’s board following stakeholder dissent over its classification as an out-of-cycle project.

FERC once again dashed the hopes of the New England congressional delegation seeking to challenge the results of last year’s ISO-NE capacity auction.

EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan was the subject of several panels at last week’s NARUC Winter Meeting in Washington. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy also talked about the plan in remarks to hundreds of attendees during NARUC’s general session Tuesday.

News briefs on the federal agencies that impact those doing business in the RTO footprints. This week we include the Energy Department, the NRC and BOEM.

FERC upheld its order that MISO could no longer broadly allocate the SSR costs of three power plants in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

In a bid to win D.C.’s approval of its takeover of Pepco, Exelon last week more than doubled the amount of customer credits it is offering.

Generators would be permitted to sell frequency response services at market-based rates under a rule proposed by FERC last week.

PSEG reported fourth-quarter net income of $476 million ($0.94/share), more than double the $200 million ($0.39/share) for the same quarter in 2013.

News briefs on companies doing business with RTOs. This week we include Ameren, NextEra, Xcel, Calpine, Exelon, PPL, NRG, PSEG, Dynegy and AEP.

FERC last week approved NERC's new risk-based approach to reliability compliance monitoring and enforcement, the Reliability Assurance Initiative (RAI).