Not surprisingly, state regulators quickly made their concerns known about DOE's request for a new FERC rulemaking proceeding in order to “ensure efficient, timely and non-discriminatory load interconnections” for large loads, says columnist Peter Kelly-Detwiler.

FERC rejected proposals from PJM and its transmission owners that would have changed regional planning, by moving those rules to the tariff from the operating agreement, while also giving transmission owners more authority over the process.

RTO stakeholders presented FERC with a cornucopia of suggestions for dealing with electrification and the increasing penetration of renewables.

Nine former FERC members urged the commission Wednesday to push for organized power markets in all regions of the country, including the West and Southeast.

A group of former FERC chairs said the commission should issue new transmission planning rules to help decarbonize and provide resilience & energy security.

Former FERC chairs celebrated two decades of RTOs with a call on legislation to increase interregional transmission and price carbon emissions into markets.

The Energy Bar Association closed its annual meeting with an entertaining panel discussion with five former FERC chairs.

RTO Insider’s Rich Heidorn Jr. spoke with Christina Simeone of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy about her study on PJM’s governance.

The West’s utility regulators took a crash course on the legal implications of their utilities joining organized electric markets (RTOs)at the spring 2018 joint CREPC-WIRAB meeting.

PJM and reliability coordinator Peak Reliability announced Thursday they will explore the development of electric markets and other services in the West.