FirstEnergy is asking consumers to prop up nuclear and coal generating plants the company says are at risk of closing due to low energy and capacity prices.

News briefs on companies in the PJM Interconnection this week, including Vivint, Tennessee Valley Authority, Sunoco, FirstEnergy and PSEG Nuclear.

PJM member companies FirstEnergy, Duke Energy, NRG Energy, Dynegy and AES all announced second-quarter earnings last week.

News briefs from the states within the PJM footprint. This week we include Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Questions multiplied faster than answers last week following an appellate court ruling that threw out FERC's jurisdiction over demand response (DR) compensation.

PJM and several member companies weighed in with reactions to the EPA's proposed GHG rule and its carbon emission limits.

Exelon shareholders shed no tears last week over the news that five of the company’s nuclear units failed to clear PJM’s capacity auction. Analysts say the company will earn almost $150 million more in capacity revenue than it would have if all of the company’s capacity had cleared.

Exelon made no secret last week that five of its nuclear units failed to clear the capacity auction. Other generators — representing almost two-thirds of the generation capacity that failed to clear — were less forthcoming.

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection. This week, we feature Duke, PSEG, PPL, FirstEnergy, Panda Power and Entergy.

The brutal winter weather boosted earnings for many PJM companies in the first quarter, even while some were absorbing huge costs from strategy shifts.