Industry experts say that while DOE's report points to a well known issue, it focuses only on keeping old plants online instead of needed new capacity.

Invenergy is standing by the value of its $11 billion, 800-mile Grain Belt Express transmission project with a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who is said to have pledged to block the line.

DOE's report tries to apply one reliability metric to different markets and finds significant new capacity will be needed in some markets to avoid reliability problems by 2030.

Missouri's attorney general says he has opened an investigation into Invenergy’s Grain Belt Express transmission project, an 800-mile, HVDC line that has been under development since 2010.

The PJM Board of Managers is pursuing an approach that would spread the cost of continuing to operate Constellation Energy’s Eddystone Generating Station to all PJM consumers.

Half of the Organization of MISO States have challenged the Department of Energy’s directive to keep the J.H. Campbell coal plant in Michigan operating through late August.

The Michigan attorney general and a group of 10 NGOs have filed for rehearing of DOE's order to keep a coal plant running for this summer, while those parties and others debated the cost recovery filing Consumers Energy made at FERC.

Looking ahead to the possibility of future emergency orders from the DOE, stakeholders endorsed a PJM issue charge to establish a more permanent set of rules for how to allocate the cost of keeping generation online beyond its desired deactivation date when ordered by the federal government.