FirstEnergy
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved $250 million in fines for FirstEnergy, which comes after a federal investigation in 2020 found the utility had bribed lawmakers to secure a bailout for its nuclear plants.
PJM presented its shortlist of projects for inclusion in the first window of its 2025 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan.
PJM presented several non-competitive projects it plans to recommend be included in the 2025 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan Window 1.
New technology and energy facilities are planned for Pennsylvania at a cost of more than $90 billion, including multiple power plants and data centers, possibly co-located.
PJM presented a $97 million increase to a project included in the 2022 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan that would remove two 230-kV lines and reroute them.
PJM presented the Planning Committee with a draft amendment to the Deactivation Enhancement Senior Task Force’s issue charge to add a key work activity focused on creating pro forma language for reliability-must-run agreements with generation owners seeking to deactivate a unit identified as being necessary for reliability.
PJM's Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee heard a presentation about the preliminary 2029 congestion results in the 2024/25 Base Case.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled FERC improperly allowed Duke Energy Ohio and FirstEnergy to include the RTO adder in their rates despite participation in an RTO being mandated by Ohio law.
PJM’s Planning Committee endorsed an issue charge to examine a “disconnect” around risk modeling showing loss of load risk has shifted from summer peaks to the winter and the calculation of zonal capacity emergency transfer limits.
FERC approved a complaint from Old Dominion Electric Cooperative over mischarges from FirstEnergy, ordering the utility to start paying back the co-op after they were in a dispute over how that should happen.
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