News briefs on companies doing business with RTOs. This week we include Duke, Dominion, FirstEnergy, NRG, Exelon, PPL and Calpine.

FERC said PPL’s plan to combine its generation with Riverstone Holdings to form Talen Energy could get its OK if it beefed up its market mitigation.

State regulators approved a $130 million rate increase for Connecticut Light & Power, cutting the company’s requested hike by 41%.

NYISO must refund more than $700,000, plus interest, to GDF Suez due to overcharges caused by missing meter data in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, FERC ruled.

FERC accepted an Entergy request to end the system agreement for its Gulf Coast companies but will consider the concerns of Texas and Louisiana regulators.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has consolidated four years of Entergy Corp.’s disputed annual cost allocation cases for hearing and settlement.

FERC last week approved Duke Energy Progress’ $1.2 billion purchase of 700 MW of generation from the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency.

Md. PSC staff said Exelon should increase its proposed credit to customers as a condition of approval of the company's merger with Pepco, while the OPC said the commission should reject the deal.

News briefs on companies doing business with RTOs. This week we include Exelon, Dominion Resources, Duke Energy, DSM and PPL.

State officials filed a new complaint in their nearly two-year effort to force a reduction in the formula transmission rates for BGE and Pepco utilities.