Stakeholders at NASEO's Winter Policy Summit debated whether energy offices should act as hubs for bringing stakeholders together and fostering collaboration.

Acting FERC Chairman Willie Phillips presided over his first open meeting, announcing a roundtable on environmental justice and his key staffers.

FERC approved an expansion of a major pipeline to serve the East Coast despite doubts about its need by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.

FERC approved changes to PacifiCorp’s interconnection procedures that will allow it to use retiring generators’ interconnection capacity for new power plants.

FERC approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would pave the way for overriding state regulators’ rejections of certain transmission projects.

In a workshop, FERC commissioners and stakeholders debated the pros and cons of requiring minimum transfer capability between regions to promote reliability.

FERC OK'd PJM's proposal to speed up its interconnection queue by handling requests through a new clustered approach that prioritizes ready-to-build projects.

The Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission convened during NARUC’s meeting to talk local project review and best practices on cost management.

FERC’s members discussed New England's winter fuel security problems and once again highlighted the commission's philosophical divide along party lines.

MISO can establish a seasonal capacity auction and accreditation but cannot require a minimum capacity obligation, FERC ruled in a pair of orders.