11.03.2008 | BY JEFF BEATTIE
Backing a payment system that more widely spreads financial responsibility for major upgrades of the Midwest grid, a federal appeals court Friday upheld a FERC ruling rejecting complaints that the system unfairly burdens Wisconsin customers and improperly...
10.31.2008 | BY JEFF BEATTIE
Overruling numerous generators who wanted larger payments, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Tuesday approved a proposal by New England’s grid operator to substantially revise the prices paid to generators who have opted out of the region’s...
10.31.2008
In another sign of the financial crunch’s impact on the utility industry, the chairman of the Large Public Power Council asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke this week to include the country’s biggest municipal utilities in the federal...
10.14.2008 | BY JOHNATHAN RICKMAN
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm last week signed into law sweeping energy legislation that effectively re-regulates much of the state’s electricity market, guaranteeing that the Michigan’s incumbent utilities will supply 90 percent of...
10.06.2008
In a step toward the type of region-wide grid pricing that the agency has long supported, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved an experimental proposal by eight western utilities to offer hourly, non-firm transmission service across their...
10.02.2008 | BY JEFF BEATTIE
In order to curb greenhouse gas emissions efficiently through a national cap-and-trade program, U.S. policymakers will have to complete currently stalled efforts to create a seamless national grid and competitive, wholesale power markets across the country, a...
09.30.2008 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must find ways to measure whether regional transmission organizations are lowering costs to consumers rather than just asserting that they are providing such benefits, according to a new federal study that says states...
09.10.2008
Less than one week after issuing its decision, the New York Public Service Commission Tuesday gave Iberdrola and Energy East Corp. one week to decide whether they want to complete their $4.5 billion merger under a new set of conditions set by the panel...
09.02.2008 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
More than a decade ago, when Congress was debating legislation to mandate retail electric competition across the nation, Southern Company led the investor-owned utility effort to block the proposal, arguing that Congress had no business messing with the...
08.29.2008
In the first such ruling the commission has ever had to make, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission earlier this month denied requests by Arizona Corporation Commission to stay a pre-filing process for Southern California Edison’s request that FERC...
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