The NYPSC declared a public policy need for $1.2 billion in transmission upgrades and recommended finalists to make competitive bids to NYISO.

NextEra Energy asked the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn two FERC orders in a generator interconnection dispute with Ameren Illinois.

Entergy has agreed to sell a Rhode Island natural gas-fired power plant to The Carlyle Group for $490 million, a 40% mark-up in less than four years.

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

FERC rejected complaints from NextEra Energy and Direct Energy seeking to change the way PJM conducts its incremental capacity auctions to transition to its new Capacity Performance product.

Seven projects proposed by transmission developers for the mid-Hudson region have cleared an initial screening by the staff of the New York PSC.

NYISO and SPP told FERC last week it should reject transmission developers’ protests to their recent Order 1000 compliance filings.

Transmission developer LS Power is protesting Order 1000 compliance filings by NYISO, SPP and ISO-NE, saying they still favor regulated incumbents over independent developers.

New England power generators asked a federal appeals court to overturn FERC orders that accepted ISO-NE’s change to a sloped demand curve in advance of this year’s Forward Capacity Auction.

This week's company briefs include news on Duke Energy, NextEra Energy, Enbridge Energy, Dominion Resources and NuScale Power.