The PJM Members Committee elected Terry Blackwell to the Board of Managers, where he will serve out the term of William Mayben, who is retiring.

Consumer advocates told PJM that Capacity Performance could saddle ratepayers with excessive costs because of its treatment of renewable energy.

This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on the Energy Information Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department.

Protesters are descending on D.C. throughout this week to protest FERC and its approval of natural gas infrastructure projects.

PJM Market Monitor Joe Bowring had a lively debate with one of the consultants for Powhatan Energy over the “duty” of market participants to self-police against market manipulation.

This week's state briefs include news on Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Maine, Maryland, Ohio, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Wisconsin.

Southern Co. and three Missouri utilities told FERC that MISO has billed them more than $21 million in excessive transmission rates since Entergy joined the RTO in December 2013.

FERC has required NERC to determine the severity of a “benchmark” GMD event — the threshold against which covered entities would evaluate their system’s vulnerability and develop protective strategies.

FERC completed its initial review of all interregional transmission planning compliance filings required under Order 1000 on Thursday.

Robert Ethier has a dream: A day when ISO-NE no longer needs constant stakeholder meetings to tweak its market rules.