The SPP board and Members Committee got down to the sticky business of deciding how — and to whom — to distribute the settlement’s funds during its quarterly meeting.

NYISO gave NRG Energy a green light to shut down two coal plants in western New York, saying reliability will be maintained through transmission.

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.

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

A former Soviet spy who lived in the U.S. for more than 35 years under an assumed identity has been working since 2011 for NYISO.

ISO-NE told FERC that GenOn Energy, facing millions in what it says are mistaken capacity charges, had plenty of time to correct the record.

GenOn Energy Management, a unit of NRG Energy, asked FERC for relief from what it called an “anomalous, illogical and patently unfair circumstance.”

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 AEP, Xcel, Dominion, Direct Energy, PECO, Exelon, NRG and General Electric.

A timeline of events in the life of the Dunkirk, N.Y., coal-fired plant.