The ISO/RTO Council asked FERC to reject financial traders’ request to update RTO credit policies, saying it would upset stakeholder proceedings.

FERC said its revised interpretation of accounting rules supports a rehearing request from developers of the abandoned PATH transmission project.

FERC Commissioner Bernard McNamee said he would not seek another term, opening up another slot on the commission for the White House and Senate to fill.

FERC declined to reconsider two orders upholding NEPOOL’s gag rule but allowing an RTO Insider reporter to join the organization’s End User sector.

PG&E settled with bondholders whose competing reorganization plan may have been the biggest threat to having its own Chapter 11 reorganization plan adopted.

Former FERC chairs celebrated two decades of RTOs with a call on legislation to increase interregional transmission and price carbon emissions into markets.

Trump’s Council on Environmental Quality proposed easing environmental reviews under NEPA, calling for tighter deadlines and more formal cooperation.

FERC ruled that the proposed merger of ColumbiaGrid and Northern Tier Transmission Group into NorthernGrid fell short of the requirements of Order 1000.

The party-line feud between FERC commissioners over whether to consider GHG emissions in reviews of natural gas infrastructure continued last year.

Princeton professor Jesse Jenkins opened a Raab Roundtable with a sobering look at the dramatic changes needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.