AEP CEO Nick Akins said that his company is innocent of wrongdoing in the alleged bribery scheme that resulted in the passage of Ohio H.B. 6, echoing a similar protestation by FirstEnergy CEO Charles Jones.
President Trump announced he will nominate Virginia State Corporation Commission Chair Mark Christie and clean energy activist Allison Clements to FERC.
PJM stakeholders continued debating changes to processes used to plan market efficiency transmission projects, including a new regional targeted process.
FERC accepted Tariff revisions filed by ISO-NE and the NEPOOL Participants Committee to make clean-up changes and enhancements to the RTO’s billing policy.
ISO-NE presented the Planning Advisory Committee with revised study scenarios and threshold prices for the 2020 Economic Study requested by National Grid.
PJM stakeholders unanimously elected a slate of five new members to serve one-year terms as part of the Nominating Committee.
NRG Energy said it will acquire competitive retailer Direct Energy from U.K.-based Centrica for $3.63 billion in an all-cash transaction.
The MRC and MC gave a final endorsement of PJM’s short-term proposal to resolve five-minute dispatch and pricing issues.
A panel discussed promoting equitable access to clean energy and a sustainable environment at a meeting of New England Women in Energy and the Environment.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted FERC’s request for a delay in responding to the court’s order barring the commission’s use of tolling orders.