Two more wind farms have joined a complaint against NIPSCO, asking FERC to cut the $35.8 million bill the utility assessed them for transmission upgrades.

FERC is starting the process of arbitrating interregional Order 1000 compliance filings, beginning last week with PJM and MISO.

NIPSCO has reached an agreement with environmentalists and consumer advocates on a new renewables tariff that will boost payments to small wind farms.

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection, this week including PPL, Atlantic City Electric Co. and Hess Corp.

Impatient over the pace of progress, FERC said it will monitor meetings focused on eliminating barriers to the coordination of energy across the PJM-MISO seam.

In its complaint against PJM and MISO, the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCO) proposed six changes.