A proposal to impose a temporary $0.07/MWh uplift charge on all netted virtual transactions received a cool response from PJM members Thursday — including a rebuff from the attorney for the Financial Marketers Coalition.
MISO told Illinois officials that the nine-fold price increase the state experienced in this month’s capacity auction was the result of market dynamics.
New England governors last week backed away from their 2013 commitment to share the costs of new gas pipelines and electric transmission, announcing a revised regional energy strategy that gives individual states more flexibility.
MISO on Wednesday got an earful of stakeholder suggestions about how to spur interregional transmission projects at the seams with PJM and SPP.
Record cold weather and falling natural gas prices helped push AEP’s first quarter earnings up 12%.
Extreme cold helped drive first quarter earnings at two of Michigan’s utilities, though neither DTE Energy nor CMS Energy enjoyed quite the bump as during the polar vortex last year.
This week's federal briefs include news from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Congress.
MISO has declined a request by the Public Consumer Advocates sector for $200,000 to help cover its legal costs in a fight over MISO transmission owners’ return on equity.
The U.S. electric industry will face reliability concerns in four years if the interim goals of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan aren’t relaxed, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said last week.
PJM is considering changing its day-ahead market schedule in response to FERC's April 16 ruling revising the interstate gas nomination timeline.
