More than 120 people attended the Independent Power Producers of New York’s annual spring conference at the Desmond Hotel and Conference Center.

A former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is under federal investigation for his dealings with Competitive Power Ventures (CPV).

The Supreme Court rejected the Maryland PSC attempt to subsidize CPV's combined cycle plant, saying it interfered with FERC jurisdiction.

Lawyers for Maryland and Competitive Power Ventures got little support from Supreme Court justices during oral arguments in the latest federal-state jurisdiction case Wednesday.

The Clean Power Plan was the hot topic at the NARUC winter meetings, but attendees also heard discussions about the growth of wind and a debate on capacity markets.

The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will rule on two federal-state jurisdictional cases pitting New Jersey and Maryland regulators against FERC.

Seven projects proposed by transmission developers for the mid-Hudson region have cleared an initial screening by the staff of the New York PSC.

Creditors of the 55-MW Fibrominn power plant — the first in the U.S. designed to burn poultry litter as its primary fuel — have won federal approval to gobble up the Minnesota facility from receivership.

New generators from Exelon, LS Power and Competitive Power Ventures were the apparent winners in ISO-NE's capacity auction, while NRG Energy and Public Service Enterprise Group walked away empty handed.

CPV plans to begin major construction next month on its 661-MW combined-cycle plant in Maryland despite an unfavorable ruling last week from the FERC.