This week, we welcome David Cruthirds to the RTO Insider team with his first of hopefully many columns, providing insight into MISO and Southern Co.

Entergy powered down the Vermont Yankee nuclear station for the final time last week, leaving ISO-NE even more dependent on natural gas.

News briefs on companies doing business with RTOs. This week we include Xcel, PSEG, Entergy, UGI, AEP, FirstEnergy and Duke.

FERC accepted an Entergy request to end the system agreement for its Gulf Coast companies but will consider the concerns of Texas and Louisiana regulators.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has consolidated four years of Entergy Corp.’s disputed annual cost allocation cases for hearing and settlement.

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.

Electric demand, industrial use and liquefied natural gas exports will make the Southeast the top destination for natural gas in the U.S. by 2019, according to a new study.

SPP won FERC approval to add three new members in the Upper Great Plains, an expansion that restores the RTO’s scope after its loss of Entergy to MISO.

News briefs on companies in the PJM Interconnection this week, including PSEG, FirstEnergy, AEP, Dominion, TVA, PPL, ComEd and NRG.

News briefs on companies in the PJM Interconnection this week, including Exelon, Entergy, ComEd, PSEG and DTE.