Consumer advocates, environmentalists, wind and solar developers and public power called on FERC Tuesday to “review the design of organized wholesale electricity markets, particularly capacity constructs” in its resiliency docket.

Some states are creating energy policies without enough regard for grid reliability, possibly forcing FERC to intervene, Commissioner Robert Powelson said.

MISO’s Energy Storage Task Force has been left wondering if it will help shape the RTO’s response to FERC’s sweeping storage participation order.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on cybersecurity, with one witness advising a pause in CIP standards.

APPA CEO Sue Kelly has been railing for years against RTO rules she says are skewed in favor of large transmission and generation owners. As members gathered for their annual Legislative Rally, the group could celebrate recent policy victories on both fronts.

SPP’s Strategic Planning Committee and other stakeholders reviewed a draft of a staff-written response to FERC’s grid resiliency docket.

An advocacy group accused PJM of violating the Federal Power Act by making political contributions with membership funds. PJM said the payments were to allow staff access to energy-related policy summits and not to support any candidate.

Blocked by regulators from moving its ailing coal-fired Pleasants plant into the rate base of a subsidiary, FirstEnergy announced it will shut the plant down.

Dragos CEO Robert M. Lee told NARUC that hackers targeting the U.S. electric industry are growing more numerous and more skilled.

FERC approved a package of modifications developed by CAISO for the EIM, and issued several other decisions related to Western states and energy markets.