The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a pair of lawsuits that could determine whether ERCOT has a right to sovereign immunity from lawsuits.

ERCOT asked the Texas Supreme Court to find that it is entitled to immunity as a governmental agency and reject a five-year-old lawsuit by a power developer.

Exelon made no secret last week that five of its nuclear units failed to clear the capacity auction. Other generators — representing almost two-thirds of the generation capacity that failed to clear — were less forthcoming.

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection. This week, we feature Duke, PSEG, PPL, FirstEnergy, Panda Power and Entergy.

Maryland and CPV officials aren’t saying what their next move is in the wake of a federal court ruling that voided the state’s contract with developers of a 725 MW combined cycle plant in St. Charles.

State briefs from around PJM's territory. Included this week are Delaware,Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.

Panda Power Funds, a Texas-based private equity fund, last week announced two big investments in PJM, proposing a plant in MD and purchasing rights to a planned generator in PA.