FERC officials and RTO executives still had more questions than answers this week regarding the Department of Energy’s (DOE) plans for rescuing at risk nuclear and coal plants.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Arkansas PSC’s request that it review a FERC order directing Entergy Arkansas to continue sharing settlement proceeds.

FERC opened an investigation to determine whether the cost recovery for a Cleco Power plant that serves as a MISO system support resource (SSR) unit is justifiable.

MISO and PJM plan to unveil rule changes that will better synchronize how they manage incremental auction revenue rights along their seam.

FERC on Tuesday rejected a MISO proposal to streamline the RTO’s process to define and qualify its network resources, saying the changes would cause Tariff discrepancies.

Kansas and Missouri regulators approved Great Plains Energy’s merger with Westar Energy, the final hurdles in a stock-for-stock merger of equals.

MISO’s Steering Committee submitted eight new possible market improvement ideas to the Market Subcommittee for stakeholder discussion.

Illinois is advancing toward an increasingly cleaner energy and will use increasing amounts of renewable power, according to the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC).

An Indiana appeals court ruled Monday that Duke Energy can recover from its ratepayers the cost of damages associated with not fulfilling the terms of a wind energy purchase agreement.

FERC upheld opinions from two administrative law judges pertaining to a seven-month period of Entergy bandwidth calculations from 2005.