FERC rejected Entergy Texas’ attempt to terminate a power purchase agreement with qualifying facilities at Goodyear Tire & Rubber’s Beaumont chemical plant.

FERC upheld MISO’s plan to integrate qualifying facilities into Entergy’s footprint, rejecting a rehearing request by Occidental Chemical.

FERC upheld its decision requiring Northern States Power to continue purchasing electricity from a small hydroelectric plant, maintaining that the plant does not have access to MISO's capacity market.

FERC denied an application by Northern States Power to terminate its mandatory purchase obligation from Twin Cities Hydro.

FERC denied a request by VEPCO to terminate its obligation to purchase electricity from nine North Carolina solar facilities.

FERC rejected for a second time PPL Electric Utilities’ request to be relieved from its obligation to purchase the output of an 18-MW qualifying facility (QF) in Pennsylvania.

Disputes between utilities and solar providers aren’t limited to North Carolina.

North Carolina has unexpectedly become one of the fastest-growing destinations for solar energy developers in the nation, but a battle pitting the state's largest utilities against environmentalists could stop that growth in its tracks.

FERC reiterated its 20 MW threshold regarding purchase obligations from qualifying facilities (qf) but the panel’s two Republican members said the commission should rethink its approach.