The challenge by P3 and EPSA is the first major test of a 2013 Virginia law requiring utilities to demonstrate that they have considered competitive bids.

Exelon has joined the opposition to FirstEnergy's attempts to win guaranteed payments for its Ohio power plants.

When FirstEnergy announced that it had reached a settlement with PUCO staff to secure guaranteed rates for several of its merchant plants, the company found itself under attack by many of its former allies.

The Supreme Court's liberal wing indicated support Wednesday for FERC’s jurisdiction over demand response, but the commission faced harsh questions from conservative Antonin Scalia and swing vote Anthony Kennedy.

More than 170 people attended the IPPNY's 30th annual Fall Conference at the historic Gideon Putnam resort in Saratoga Springs, a two-day affair of golf and industry talk.

NEPOOL joined ISO-NE in asking FERC to reject a request by generators to force the RTO to develop a zonal sloped demand curve design for FCA 10 in February.

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will reconsider the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision threatening the FERC’s authority over demand response.

A federal appeals court Friday threw out the 2013 EPA rule exempting diesel generators providing demand response from air emissions limits.

ISO-NE is considering delaying full integration of demand response into its markets by a year due to uncertainty about FERC’s authority over the resource.

FERC yesterday asked the Supreme Court to overturn an appellate court ruling voiding its authority to demand response in RTOs, a day after PJM filed a contingency plan for including DR in its upcoming capacity auction.