Creditors of the 55-MW Fibrominn power plant — the first in the U.S. designed to burn poultry litter as its primary fuel — have won federal approval to gobble up the Minnesota facility from receivership.
States and federal regulators need to keep consumers in mind when picking jurisdictional fights over control of the electric industry, FERC Commissioner Tony Clark said.
This week's state briefs include news on Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Virginia and Wisconsin.
FERC said single-step discounted cash flow (DCF) analyses that it formerly used are adequate to support rate complaints made before it changed the rules.
This week's company briefs include news on NorthWestern Corp., Duke Energy, FirstEnergy, Allete, Entergy, Consumers Energy and DTE Energy.
PJM also released its response to the Monitor's annual State of the Market Report for last year, as well as its own Annual Report.
At the New England Energy Conference and Exposition, experts said distributed generation isn't leading to a “death spiral” for traditional utilities.
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.
