NYISO is reorganizing its leadership team in preparation for CEO Stephen Whitley’s plan to retire next year.

FERC granted PJM’s request to increase the cost-based energy offer cap to $1,800/MWh through March.

FERC yesterday asked the Supreme Court to overturn an appellate court ruling voiding its authority to demand response in RTOs, a day after PJM filed a contingency plan for including DR in its upcoming capacity auction.

The NJ BPU staff recommended OK of Exelon’s acquisition of Pepco in a deal that would give Atlantic City Electric customers $62 million in rate credits.

AEP has hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to investigate the sale of its merchant generation fleet in Ohio and Indiana, both coal- and natural gas-fired.

Two New England utilities that had power purchase agreements with the Cape Wind Associates’ offshore project have terminated the contracts.

News briefs from the states within the footprint of RTOs. This week we include Illinois, Kansas and Maryland, as well as the Canadian province of Manitoba.

The RTO stakeholder process came under fire last week at a FERC technical conference on the treatment of financial transactions in PJM.

PJM planners won’t be ready after all to recommend a stability fix for Artificial Island in time for the Board of Managers’ regular meeting in February.

Northeast Utilities, which operates six electric and gas companies in three New England states, is rebranding by changing its name to Eversource Energy.