An ISO-NE official sat down with some of the RTO’s biggest critics, including Sen. Ed Markey, who pushed her on its clean energy efforts and transparency.

ISO-NE proposed to FERC that all new distributed energy resources go through state interconnection processes, rather than TOs determining which process.

FERC approved NERC's June spreadsheet notice of penalty, including settlements over reliability standard violations submitted by SERC and MRO.

Columnist Steve Huntoon is disillusioned by FERC's retreat from Order 1000's requirements for competition in transmission.

PJM consumer advocates and transmission owners appear headed for a showdown over a proposed review of the RTO’s use of designated entity agreements.

FERC has approved SPP tariff revisions that establish an annual process for developing a single set of uniform zonal planning criteria.

The company behind a Massachusetts gas plant agrees to pay a $17 million penalty and hand back $26 million in profits after FERC found that it misled ISO-NE.

FERC has granted MISO an additional three months on two temporary waivers of its tariff after the grid operator hit delays on software upgrades.

FERC’s interconnection proposal won wide praise, but some generation developers were dismayed that the commission failed to address participant funding.

Frustration over the lack of transmission growth and interregional planning mixed with optimism over FERC’s recent rulemakings at the Transmission Summit.