FERC granted East Kentucky Power Cooperative an exemption from being required to purchase power from PURPA qualifying facilities larger than 20 MW.

Kevin McIntyre brought little comfort to Republican senators seeking assurances that the commission would look into shoring up uneconomic coal plants.

There is wide disagreement over how much natural gas the U.S. even has, and even more disagreement on when it will run out.

The U.S. is becoming a net exporter of natural gas for the first time since 1958, a boon to the nation but a source of concern for gas customers.

FERC rejected SPP’s proposed Tariff revisions requiring load-responsible entities (LREs) to maintain sufficient capacity and planning reserves.

A study for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) spotlighting the “resiliency” of coal-fired generation echoes the DOE's findings.

ATC agreed to pay a fine and undergo a year of monitoring after failing to report more than 60 agreements and transactions to FERC over the past 16 years.

Coal's best hope may be that FERC adopt the DOE grid study's recommendation to lean on RTOs to value on-site fuel storage as a proxy for resiliency.

FERC rejected a request to include the cost of emissions controls in the peaking plant design for the NYISO New York Control Area capacity demand curve.

FERC approved PG&E's request to recover from its customers a portion of the costs of a $1.8 billion package of planned transmission improvements.