This week's state briefs include news on Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Con Ed and the New York Public Service Commission reached a settlement that keeps distribution rates stable through 2016.

A new report by NYISO says energy efficiency and distributed energy resources will cut peak demand growth on New York’s bulk power system by more than 2,700 MW in 2025.

Expanded retail-level demand response programs will take effect as soon as July 1 in targeted areas of upstate New York.

This week's state briefs include news on Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.

New York regulators approved Central Hudson's rate plan in an order that also says one project the company filed in the Reforming the Energy Vision program shows promise.

This week's state briefs include news on Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

Kinder Morgan has scaled back a natural gas pipeline proposed for New England, but the changes will have little effect on the overall project.

New York state is proposing to invest $1.5 billion in large-scale renewable energy development over the next decade under a revised procurement strategy to reduce costs.

Returning and repowered generation resources and newly announced transmission upgrades appear to have alleviated NYISO's concerns about system reliability over the next 10 years.