Despite a drop in Q4 earnings, Entergy executives gave an upbeat outlook, citing stronger-than-expected growth in retail sales and forecasts of increasing industrial demand.

The ninth Forward Capacity Auction in ISO-NE saw prices increase by about one-third as 1,400 MW of new resources cleared to replace retiring coal plants.

Market Monitor David Patton told the MISO Board of Directors’ Markets Committee that the RTO should see significant benefits from its market-to-market coordination with SPP.

A Massachusetts state legislator whose district includes Brayton Point has filed legislation that would revamp the state’s energy landscape.

MISO is proposing to modify its Tariff so that generation owners retiring coal plants to meet EPA's MATS can avoid capacity deficiency penalties.

FERC dismissed a challenge to the pricing rule for new generation in ISO-NE, which Exelon and Calpine had wanted tossed in advance of this week’s FCA.

A Virginia Senate subcommittee has passed a bill that would freeze Dominion Virginia Power customers’ base rates and bar state regulators from reviewing the utility’s revenue until after 2020.

PSE&G accused PJM of breaking its own rules in refereeing the competition for the Artificial Island stability fix, suggesting the RTO should start all over.

The SPP Board of Directors elected Mike Ross as senior vice president of government affairs and PR and Malinda See as vice president of corporate services.

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