Canada’s Algonquin Power & Utilities has agreed to purchase The Empire District Electric Co. for $2.4 billion.
Investor-owned utilities will have a central role in the expansion of distributed generation and renewables, the industry’s trade group told securities analysts.
FERC's general counsel said that there are “significant benefits” to allowing challenges to rates that take effect as a result of a commission deadlock.
The ERCOT board remanded to the TAC a proposal to pay lost opportunity costs to generators ordered to ramp down for grid reliability.
The Supreme Court's stay of the Clean Power Plan won’t affect PJM's planned analysis of the economic and reliability implications of complying with the federal program.
A summary of responses by RTOs and state officials to the Supreme Court's stay to the Clean Power Plan.
The court’s surprise stay of the Clean Power plan prevents EPA from enforcing the rule pending the outcome of court challenges, meaning states will most likely not have to file compliance plans or extension requests by September, as the rule requires.
The death of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia likely improved the odds that the Clean Power Plan will survive court challenges.
Prices dropped 26% in ISO-NE’s 10th Forward Capacity Auction as new resources more than made up for retiring generation.
The Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan is not likely to end the shift to gas and renewables and away from coal, according to EEI.
