Extreme winter temperatures, while not as severe as last year, continue to play a major role in companies’ earnings results and business strategies.

News briefs on companies doing business with RTOs. This week we include FirstEnergy, NRG, PPL, Exelon and the TVA.

News briefs on companies doing business with RTOs. This week we include Ameren, NextEra, Xcel, Calpine, Exelon, PPL, NRG, PSEG, Dynegy and AEP.

PPL will file a base distribution rate case this year for its Pennsylvania business, CEO Bill Spence said during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call.

News briefs on companies doing business with RTOs. This week we include Duke, Entergy, PPL, Ameren, FirstEnergy, Dominion, TVA and PSE&G.

PPL and Riverstone have agreed to satisfy market power concerns over the spinoff of their generation into Talen Energy by making only cost-based offers for the more than 650 MW that they will keep in eastern PJM.

News briefs on companies doing business with RTOs. This week we include PPL, Dominion, NextEra, Duke, Exelon and NRG.

News briefs on companies doing business with RTOs. This week we include Exelon, Dynegy, PPL, PSE&G and NRG.

The EPA last week issued the first-ever federal regulations on the handling and storage of coal ash, pleasing utilities and disappointing environmentalists by declining to classify the material as hazardous waste.

News briefs on companies doing business with RTOs. This week we include Duke, Dominion, FirstEnergy, NRG, Exelon, PPL and Calpine.