The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Kimball Wind LLC’s petition to overturn a FERC decision rejecting the wind developer’s bid for $5.9 million in reimbursement from WAPA for contributing to a substation expansion in Nebraska.

FERC responded to critics of the Southeast Energy Exchange Market, clarifying its use of the comparability standard to justify the market.

MISO has put a second proposal for a fast-tracked interconnection queue lane in front of FERC, a mere three weeks after the commission rejected the RTO’s initial proposal.

FERC decided it’s practical for MISO to have an almost three-year extension of the commission’s directive to implement ambient adjusted transmission line ratings.

Consumers Energy filed a complaint with FERC against MISO seeking compensation for keeping open the J.H. Campbell coal plant this summer as ordered by the U.S. Department of Energy.

The Edison Electric Institute’s annual conference and thought leadership forum featured numerous discussions on the industry's ability to meet the explosive demand without sacrificing reliability and affordability.

FERC’s resource adequacy technical conference zoomed out on the second day, June 5, with several panels examining ISO-NE, MISO and NYISO.

FERC spent June 4-5 looking into resource adequacy across the markets it regulates. 

Outgoing FERC Chair Mark Christie and former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter both emphasized that the West controls the future of the Western interconnection, not Washington.

NERC will open ballots soon on the latest standard aimed at satisfying FERC's order to address reliability of inverter-based resources.