The Clean Power Plan, FERC Order 1000, enforcement and distributed generation were favorite topics at the Energy Bar Association’s Midwest chapter meeting.

FERC issued a show cause order demanding more than $42 million from Coaltrain Energy.

FERC has begun a non-public investigation over allegations of improprieties in MISO's April capacity auction and will hold a technical conference on the matter Oct. 20.

A key House committee approved what would be the first comprehensive energy legislation in eight years, but hopes for passage dimmed after amendments favored by the oil and gas industry and reductions in funding eroded bipartisan support.

Seeking to improve its ability to unravel complicated market manipulation schemes, FERC proposed a new way for identifying connections between companies and individuals.

Maxim Power wants to FERC drop two other allegations or combine them with the original complaint.

FERC ordered City Power Marketing to pay $15 million in penalties and repay almost $1.3 million in profits for making riskless up-to-congestion trades in PJM to cash in on line-loss rebates.

FERC was the subject of intense criticism Wednesday and Thursday as members of a congressional subcommittee considered legislation to rein in the agency’s Office of Enforcement.

Staff of a Maryland power plant accidentally threw away records necessary for an audit, fruitlessly searching four dumpsters for them, NRG told FERC.

Rich and Kevin Gates say they will force FERC to collect $34.5 million in federal court, where a statute of limitations defense could reduce the penalties.