The agreement announced March 18 is valued at $5 billion before closing adjustments, or approximately $1,142/kW of capacity.

The Supreme Court should reject an appeal from Duke Energy of an antitrust case it lost in lower courts, the Office of the Solicitor General said.

Committee business included a quick-fix package to expand the definition of dual-fuel generation in the Reliability Assurance Agreement to include generation capable of running on a backup fuel type with off-site storage and dedicated delivery.

In an antitrust lawsuit filed in federal court, Avangrid accused NextEra Energy of conducting an “exclusionary and anticompetitive scheme” to stop a major transmission project connecting New England to Quebec.