FERC voted 3-2 to update its policy on natural gas infrastructure certificates and outlined how it will evaluate the impacts of projects’ GHG emissions.

FERC clarified that its order on remand partially reversing PJM’s proposed energy price formation revisions did not remove the RTO’s reserve price caps.

FERC accepted PJM’s new FTR forfeiture rule without ordering refunds of bills under the previous regime the RTO implemented without commission approval.

FERC ordered PJM to remove the 10% cost adder for the reference resource used to establish the VRR curve in the RTO’s capacity market.

FERC settled two disputes over waivers from SPP’s generator interconnection procedures, approving one, denying the other, with Mark Christie dissenting on both.

FERC accepted a second round of changes from CAISO's stakeholder initiative on hybrid resources, including a contested exemption for renewables plus storage.

Concerns over FERC’s legal authority to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions came up throughout the commission’s technical conference on GHG mitigation.

FERC approved a consent agreement between its Office of Enforcement and Golden Spread Electric Cooperative over charges of market manipulation.

Opponents of the recently instituted Southeast Energy Exchange Market are seeking to overturn its approval, granted last month by a deadlocked FERC.

Utility and RTO officials at NARUC’s annual meeting expressed hope for FERC’s recent ANOPR aimed at improving regional transmission planning.