MISO executives and some of its state regulators provided sharply contrasting visions of the grid’s move away from fossil fuels and toward renewables.

FERC Chair Neil Chatterjee's daylong EnVision Forum brought a who’s who of electric policymakers to the University of Kentucky.

MISO released a proposal that would replace its 15-year futures scenarios with predictions that assume more renewable generation and carbon-cutting.

Public utility commissions from coal-producing states are urging FERC to finish its docket opened in January 2018 to solicit information on grid resilience.

The rate of MISO’s grid transformation is distressingly slow and unbelievably quick, members said in a session directed at guiding future market decisions.

ERCOT’s Board of Directors got a look at the work implementing real-time co-optimization, which will add ancillary services to the real-time SCED engine.

Xcel stressed its renewable credentials after the release of its second-quarter earnings, detailing developments that will lessen reliance on fossil fuels.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry hasn’t given up on his campaign for coal and nuclear generation, but he conceded he hasn’t made much progress either.

Minnesota’s Xcel Energy is aiming to be coal-free by 2030, supported by extending service of its nuclear plant and using more natural gas-fired generation.

Gas-fired generation continues to rapidly gain market share at the expense of coal, a trend likely to accelerate this year, according to reports.