State officials filed a new complaint in their nearly two-year effort to force a reduction in the formula transmission rates for BGE and Pepco utilities.
News briefs from the states within the footprint of RTOs. This week we include Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
MISO's Board of Directors approved MTEP 14, a $2.5 billion package of 369 transmission projects, including the 500-kV Great Northern Transmission Line.
The MISO Advisory Committee sought stakeholder input on making the most of demand response, and whether the RTO should take any action on FERC Order 745.
FERC will hold four technical conferences next year to discuss the effects of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan on reliability and wholesale electricity markets.
PJM filed its Capacity Performance proposal with FERC, a 1,275-page capacity market overhaul that it hopes will prevent a repeat of last winter.
PJM will seek FERC approval for a controversial proposal to raise the cost-based energy offer cap to $1,800/MWh through March 2015.
A round-up of news from the PJM Planning Committee on Dec. 4, 2014.
U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli said he will ask the Supreme Court to review an appellate court ruling voiding the FERC’s authority over DR in wholesale energy markets.
The DOJ is investigating the interconnection process in PJM’s MAAC sub-region as part of its anti-trust review of Exelon’s $6.8 billion takeover of Pepco.
