ERCOT could increase power transfers with the Eastern interconnection over AC lines without falling under FERC jurisdiction, says columnist Steve Huntoon.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a petition by the Union of Concerned Scientists calling for a review of DOE rules concerning disclosure of CEII.

FERC approved incentive rates for a project to upgrade the Citizens-S Line, an 18-mile wooden-pole transmission line in Southern Calif., to steel towers.

FERC voted to approve a supplemental NOPR that would scale back a transmission rate adder designed to encourage utilities to join RTOs.

FERC approved a policy statement on how it would review carbon pricing proposals in organized wholesale electricity markets.

RTO policies assigning network upgrades to interconnection customers are no longer just and reasonable, renewable advocates said in a new report.

DOE’s latest assessment of transmission congestion has concluded there is no need to designate national-interest transmission corridors.

FERC’s proposed policy statement on carbon pricing won wide support, although some expressed doubt that it will spur adoption.

A panel examining FERC’s response to the D.C. Circuit’s Allegheny ruling evolved into an in-depth Q&A with acting General Counsel David Morenoff.

FERC invited states to introduce carbon pricing in wholesale markets but said it had no authority to initiate such programs itself.