More and more, energy policy analysis seems to be based on finding a preferred answer rather than a realistic answer, says America's Power CEO Michelle Bloodworth.

MISO said a yearslong software error caused it to clear more capacity than intended in past capacity auctions and which has resulted in an approximate $280 million impact to market participants in this year’s auction.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration is boosting its estimate of national power generation growth to 2.3% this year and 3.0% next year.

The Northwest Power and Conservation Council provided additional details on how its ninth power plan will consider new federal policies that could impact the buildout of new resources and transmission.

California lawmakers have shifted the legislation designed to transition governance of CAISO’s markets to an independent “regional organization” into a different bill — AB 825.

Permitting reform legislation is starting to move through Congress, with a key House committee holding a hearing and supporters lobbying legislators, though actually passing a bill is tough in any political climate.

Controlled Thermal Resources has a new collaborator for its 500-MW geothermal energy plant in California’s Lithium Valley, where it is eyeing co-location of manufacturing or data centers.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier decision that sided with FERC on a PURPA case without using Chevron deference, agreeing with the commission's statutory interpretation.

An apparently routine rate incentive request from a MISO transmission developer who has yet to be assigned a project turned into a debate between FERC commissioners over capital structures in ratemaking.

After years of looking for a buyer, Consumers Energy announced it struck a $13 deal to sell its fleet of 13 hydroelectric dams in Michigan to a Bethesda, Md., private equity firm.