FERC voted to approve a supplemental NOPR that would scale back a transmission rate adder designed to encourage utilities to join RTOs.

FERC approved a policy statement on how it would review carbon pricing proposals in organized wholesale electricity markets.

RTO policies assigning network upgrades to interconnection customers are no longer just and reasonable, renewable advocates said in a new report.

DOE’s latest assessment of transmission congestion has concluded there is no need to designate national-interest transmission corridors.

FERC’s proposed policy statement on carbon pricing won wide support, although some expressed doubt that it will spur adoption.

A panel examining FERC’s response to the D.C. Circuit’s Allegheny ruling evolved into an in-depth Q&A with acting General Counsel David Morenoff.

FERC invited states to introduce carbon pricing in wholesale markets but said it had no authority to initiate such programs itself.

FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee said the commission will not petition the Supreme Court over the D.C. Circuit’s ruling that its use of tolling orders violates the NGA and FPA.

FERC affirmed that it has exclusive jurisdiction over Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association’s rates and member exit charges.

FERC found Idaho Power had satisfied standards for market-based rate authority and terminated a proceeding it had ordered to find out if the utility was exercising market power in its BAA.