After nearly four years of investigation, FERC publicly accused an energy trading firm of market manipulation in a case that dogged enforcement chief Norman Bay through his confirmation as commissioner.

PJM and the IMM said they will target traders who schedule interchange trades for the last 15 minutes of an hour based on price differentials in the first portion of the hour, a scheme known as “slamming the close.”

Disputes between utilities and solar providers aren’t limited to North Carolina.

PJM has created a closed loop interface to capture the pricing of demand response in a transmission sub-zone spanning the Pennsylvania-Ohio border near New Castle, Pa.

North Carolina has unexpectedly become one of the fastest-growing destinations for solar energy developers in the nation, but a battle pitting the state's largest utilities against environmentalists could stop that growth in its tracks.

Virginia State Corporation Commission staff wants Dominion Virginia Power to conduct a risk analysis comparing reliance on natural gas-fired generation and constructing a third unit at its North Anna nuclear plant.

Generation owners last week helped kill a joint proposal from PJM and the IMM to reduce payments to frequently mitigated units (FMUs).

Our summary of issues discussed and voted on at the PJM MRC and MC on Thursday, 6/26/14 with no surprises or lengthy debate.

The California ISO’s expansion of its energy imbalance market to six other states have some asking the question: Is this the beginning of an RTO West?

It’s too early to say whether PPL shareholders be better off now that the company has decided to spin off its generation unit. But there’s no doubt the deal with Riverstone Holdings will shuffle the generator rankings.