Industry experts talked about the trends dictating new energy infrastructure at a Midwest Energy Policy Series panel hosted by the Missouri Energy Initiative.

FERC declined to grant Ameren additional transmission incentive rates for portions of the company’s 500-mile Grand Rivers project.

A D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel vacated a series of FERC orders that allowed new MISO generators to self-fund network transmission upgrades.

MISO’s Zone 4 either has sufficient reserves or is in dire straits, depending on the viewpoint expressed at an Illinois Commerce Commission workshop.

MISO is defending its methods for validating utility load forecasts after Dynegy charged that Ameren miscalculated its summer peak load forecast.

MISO and PJM have withdrawn their support for developing the lone efficiency project to emerge from the RTOs’ two-year coordinated system plan.

Ameren Missouri is urging MISO to scrap a newly proposed process for identifying when generators deviate from dispatch instructions.

After criticizing Ameren Illinois for miscalculating its summer peak load forecast, Dynegy called on MISO to develop a new process for verifying forecasts.

Environmental and consumer activists accused Ameren Illinois of attempting to bypass energy efficiency targets set by the state.

The Supreme Court said it would not hear a challenge to FERC Order 1000, which ended the federal right of first refusal in transmission construction.