The development of a single RTO covering the U.S. portion of the Western Interconnection could save $2 billion a year in energy costs by 2030, study says.

During a meeting of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners, regulators shared strategies for dealing with heat waves, cold snaps and wildfires.

FERC on Tuesday found that Idaho Power had satisfied the commission’s standards for market-based rate authority and terminated a Section 206 proceeding it had ordered last September to find out if the utility was exercising market power in its balancing authority area (ER10-2126). The proceeding was meant to determine if...