NYISO can force idled generators to allow use of their interconnections for reliability purposes, FERC ruled last week, saying that such actions do not constitute an unconstitutional “taking” under the Fifth Amendment.

The SPP Board of Directors approved staff’s recommendation that it authorize construction for a 21-mile 115-kV line from Walkemeyer to North Liberal as part of a reliability solution in southwestern Kansas.

The SPP Board of Directors rejected a recommendation to create a short-term reliability unit commitment study as part of the intra-day RUC process.

The U.S. electric industry will face reliability concerns in four years if the interim goals of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan aren’t relaxed, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said last week.

PJM planners have selected LS Power to build a new 230-kV transmission line from New Jersey’s Artificial Island to Delaware to address stability issues at the nuclear complex.

FERC today granted PJM’s request to delay May’s capacity auction, allowing the RTO more time to seek commission approval for its Capacity Performance proposal.

The Obama administration’s first Quadrennial Energy Review calls for returning the U.S. to a post-World War II level of investment in infrastructure, spending it says could create 1.5 million jobs while transforming the nation’s electric grid and oil and gas pipelines.

Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA); operators of an Oklahoma coal-fired generator seeking a temporary reprieve from EPA's MATS rule won an assist from FERC.

At its April 16 open meeting, FERC issued new reliability standards, denied rehearing on business practices and ordered a new format for electronic filing reports.

FERC backtracked from its January order directing ISO-NE to develop a market-based approach for its winter reliability program later this year.