FERC rejected PG&E's request for an adder to its transmission rates based on its participation in CAISO, finding that California law precludes it from leaving the ISO without the state’s permission.

State regulators and transmission customers of Southern California Edison urged FERC to reject the utility’s requested rate hike for 2018.

FERC said it will let MISO and SPP work with their stakeholders to determine whether they should require refund commitments from nonpublic utility members.

Speaking Tuesday at the Energy Bar Association’s midyear conference, FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee tallied off six objectives for revising the commission’s regulatory posture.

More than half of the $24.3 billion in transmission projects in PJM since 2012 were unneeded to comply with reliability requirements, according to AMP.

FERC rejected an argument by the California PUC (CPUC) that it erred last year in allowing PG&E to include a 50-basis-point ISO participation adder.

FERC rejected a CAISO proposal intended to prevent small transmission owners from shouldering the costs for network upgrades.

Calpine, PG&E and Southern California Edison released their second-quarter earnings results last week.