FirstEnergy would spin off the transmission assets of Jersey Central Power & Light, Metropolitan Edison and Pennsylvania Electric into a new subsidiary.

MISO will propose closing the day-ahead market one hour earlier during Daylight Savings Time in response to FERC's final rule on gas and electric schedules.

PJM confirmed last week that it will seek to move the deadline for submitting day-ahead offers up 90 minutes, from noon to 10:30 a.m. ET.

Established by SunEdison to own and operate its solar farms, TerraForm has since expanded its focus to wind and other clean-power assets.

Seven projects proposed by transmission developers for the mid-Hudson region have cleared an initial screening by the staff of the New York PSC.

FERC ordered City Power Marketing to pay $15 million in penalties and repay almost $1.3 million in profits for making riskless up-to-congestion trades in PJM to cash in on line-loss rebates.

NEPOOL joined ISO-NE in asking FERC to reject a request by generators to force the RTO to develop a zonal sloped demand curve design for FCA 10 in February.

SPP's Markets and Operations Policy Committee will vote this week on a recommendation to move the deadline for day-ahead market offers up 90 minutes to 9:30 a.m. CT.

SPP used social media recently to announce its membership had hit 90 with the addition of three cooperatives and an investor-owned utility that joined the RTO as part of the Integrated System.

This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on the Obama administration, the U.S. Senate, the Energy Department and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.