A Rochester-area farm family scored unusual concessions when New York regulators approved a plan for a substation and transmission lines that removed previously approved facilities from their property.

Exelon (NYSE:EXC) said it will close its Nine Mile Point 1 nuclear plant next spring if New York has not guaranteed it a financial lifeline by September.

NYPSC Chairwoman Audrey Zibelman defended the commission's approval of protections for retail electric customers, saying they are needed to combat deceptive practices.

Avangrid released its first-ever earnings results, showing net income of $267 million for 2015.

New York regulators OK'd a contract to keep the struggling R.E. Ginna nuclear power plant operating through March 2017.

The R.E. Ginna nuclear plant and Rochester Gas & Electric have reached an agreement to provide a financial lifeline for the plant through March 2017, 18 months earlier than originally proposed.

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

The NYPSC had argued that it had sole jurisdiction over the rates and terms of an RSSA it had ordered between Exelon’s troubled R.E. Ginna nuclear plant and Rochester Gas & Electric.

New York utilities have filed 15 demonstration projects for consideration under the state’s Reforming the Energy Vision initiative.