A parade of witnesses implored the CFTC to reverse its position in a case that they say could undermine the broad exemptions the commission granted RTOs and ISOs in 2013.

NARUC ended its winter meetings with an interview of Ted Koppel, whose 2015 book “Lights Out” alleges the U.S. is unprepared for the threat of cyberattacks on the nation’s grid.

Investor-owned utilities will have a central role in the expansion of distributed generation and renewables, the industry’s trade group told securities analysts.

The Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan is not likely to end the shift to gas and renewables and away from coal, according to EEI.

FERC's proposed rule would require RTOs and ISOs to register market participants through common alpha-numeric identifiers.

The Clean Power Plan may face an uncertain future in the courts, but investors and utility executives said it won’t upset the long-term shift away from coal-fired generation and toward increased efficiency.

FirstEnergy and AEP's CEOs told analysts and investors at the EEI Financial Conference that they expect the PUCO to rule on their requests for above-market power purchase agreements with their generators late this year or early in 2016.

At its April 16 open meeting, FERC issued new reliability standards, denied rehearing on business practices and ordered a new format for electronic filing reports.

The EPA last week issued the first-ever federal regulations on the handling and storage of coal ash, pleasing utilities and disappointing environmentalists by declining to classify the material as hazardous waste.

The electric and natural gas industries remain divided over the start of the gas day, nine months after FERC proposed changing the start time from 9 a.m. CT to 4 a.m. CT.