NYPSC Chairman Audrey Zibelman acknowledged legislators’ concerns over the state’s energy costs but gave no indication that the commission would relent on lawmakers’ demands that it release data on generators’ finances.

NYPSC staff recommended that three transmission developers move to the next stage in its initiative to eliminate bottlenecks for downstate load centers.

Bradley C. Jones will take over as CEO of NYISO on Oct. 12, as the New York power market faces a proposed overhaul led by the state’s governor and utility regulators.

The operator of the R.E. Ginna nuclear plant in western New York has reached an agreement to keep the financially stressed generator operating.

The owner of the Cayuga power plant near Ithaca last week filed its second revised proposal to repower the 312-MW facility from coal to natural gas.

The New York PSC asked NYISO to perform reliability studies in western New York after NRG Energy announced it was retiring one coal plant and suspending plans to convert another to natural gas.

The NYPSC approved a temporary surcharge while a final agreement to keep the R.E. Ginna nuclear plant operating is hammered out.

The New York Public Service Commission staff has accepted seven proposed demonstration projects for the Reforming the Energy Vision initiative.

New York regulators began to sketch out the details of their ambitious Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) initiative.

Speakers at the Infocast New York REV Summit said public demand for more control over their energy choices is driving the program.