New England's states may have to set aside their self-interests to overcome high energy prices, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said.

A summary of issues the MISO Board of Directors discussed at the MISO Informational Forum last week.

MISO planners who just completed the third phase of a study on the Clean Power Plan said last week that a “multibillion dollar” transmission build-out will be necessary in almost every compliance scenario they’ve anticipated.

The developer of the Northern Pass transmission line that would bring Canadian hydropower to New England has proposed burying 60 miles of the line through scenic areas of New Hampshire, a change that will force a reduction in its capacity.

The New England states, along with New York, are generally well ahead of the targets set in the Clean Power Plan.

Attorneys general from 15 states asked a federal court in D.C. to block the Clean Power Plan.

Entergy has proposed closing one of its largest Arkansas coal plants by 2028 and making modifications to another to comply with EPA’s Regional Haze rule.

Clean energy technologies like wind power are seen as beneficiaries of the Clean Power Plan.

Cap-and-trade is likely to be a core compliance plan for many states under the Environmental Protection Agency’s final version of the Clean Power Plan.

State and RTO officials have had two weeks to digest EPA's final Clean Power Plan and the battle lines — and paths to compliance — are developing.