The NYPSC has come out against the New York Power Authority’s request for a nearly 10% increase in its transmission rates.

This week's state briefs include news on Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin, as well as D.C.

The NYPSC approved rules designed to allow low- and moderate-income apartment dwellers to own renewable energy projects.

The NYPSC had argued that it had sole jurisdiction over the rates and terms of an RSSA it had ordered between Exelon’s troubled R.E. Ginna nuclear plant and Rochester Gas & Electric.

Seven projects proposed by transmission developers for the mid-Hudson region have cleared an initial screening by the staff of the New York PSC.

Con Ed and the New York Public Service Commission reached a settlement that keeps distribution rates stable through 2016.

This week's state briefs include news on Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.

New York regulators approved Central Hudson's rate plan in an order that also says one project the company filed in the Reforming the Energy Vision program shows promise.

Central Hudson's decision to include distributed energy resource projects in its rate case before New York regulators is providing an early look into a utility’s approach to the state’s energy industry overhaul.

New York regulators on Wednesday declined for the third time to renegotiate a contract with a financially troubled biomass generation plant.