The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee endorsed a 41% increase in a delayed 345-kV project along the Red River in southeastern Oklahoma as reasonable and reset the project’s baseline.

Transmission industry owners, operators, generators, regulators, financiers and other key players from the Western U.S. attended Infocast’s 8th annual Transmission Summit West.

AEP (NYSE:AEP) has reached a deal to sell more than 5,000 MW of Ohio and Indiana merchant generation to The Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX) and ArcLight Capital Partners for about $2.2 billion.

American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) has nearly completed the bidding process to sell more than 5,000 MW of merchant generation in Ohio and Indiana.

The PJM Board OKd more than $636 million in transmission projects, including a $320 million market efficiency project — its largest ever

American Electric Power CEO Nick Akins said last week that AEP is seeking only a partial “restructuring” of Ohio’s energy market.

The 1st competitive SPP project under FERC Order 1000, approved by the BOD with some fanfare in April, is being cancelled due to falling demand projections. 

PUCO staff has proposed a new rider for FirstEnergy in order to maintain the company’s investment-grade credit rating.

A former lawyer, Martha Peine, spent years disputing AEP (NYSE:AEP) rate filings at FERC all by herself and won a $4.2 million refund for ratepayers.