FERC has decided for a second time to leave ITC Midwest’s 16-year-old capital structure untouched over protests it results in unaffordable customer rates.

ITC Midwest can keep the capital structure it has had in place since 2007, FERC decided, blocking a complaint led by Alliant Energy.

Stakeholders are seeking a FERC rehearing of MISO’s seasonal auction design, while the RTO wants it to reconsider its minimum capacity obligation.

A coalition of utilities, industrial customers and consumer advocates spearheaded by Alliant Energy is contesting ITC Midwest’s capital structure.

MISO’s plan to extend payment arrangements for market participants that use the Midwest-to-South transmission path is destined for settlement proceedings.

An agricultural hub in Iowa is the site of a battery storage project that the Energy Department thinks could become a template for other towns.

NextEra Energy Resources announced that it will close the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa’s only nuclear power plant, five years earlier than expected.

Consolidated Edison won FERC approval to recover its payments to distributed energy resources customers.

Alliant Energy announced a quarterly profit of $174.3 million ($0.75/share), down from $179.7 million ($0.80/share) a year earlier.

We are proud to announce the initiation of the RTO Insider Top 30, the first in what will be a quarterly review of the top publicly traded companies.