For the first time in more than a year, regulators from PJM and NYISO joined in person for the MACRUC annual Education Conference.

President Trump nominated the Department of Energy’s Bernard McNamee to replace former FERC Commissioner Robert Powelson.

Cheryl LaFleur, who has been attending the FERC reliability technical conference since her appointment, always opens the meeting by citing something special about each year’s gathering.

FERC celebrated departing Commissioner Robert Powelson’s brief tenure, with colleagues extoling his candidness and defense of competitive energy markets.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee returned to the issue of natural gas infrastructure permitting following reports of increasing delays.

FERC Commissioner Robert Powelson will leave the commission after only a year in the post to lead a lobby representing the nation’s private water companies.

Electric vehicles and the tension between state and federal jurisdiction were among the topics discussed at the NECPUC 71st annual symposium.

The Republican majority at FERC narrowed the circumstances under which it will estimate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from natural gas pipeline projects.

FERC will review how it enforces the 1978 Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), with the commission’s treatment of the 1-mile rule a likely focus.