FERC approved the Macquarie Energy (ASX:MQG) request to revise its market-based rate tariff to allow the company to engage in short-term simultaneous transactions along a key Pacific Northwest transmission system.

The PJM Planning Committee held a special session to begin soliciting stakeholder input on changes to the RTO’s selection process for Order 1000 projects.

CAISO is proposing to amend its Tariff to expand the definition of a “load-serving entity” to include any organization granted authority to serve its own electricity needs.

Fellow Mortals Wildlife Hospital's dispute with American Transmission Co. (ATC) over its trees will go to trial after a judge this month denied the utility’s motion to dismiss the case.

The ERCOT Board of Directors is looking to stakeholders to improve its reliability-must-run (RMR) practices, as the grid operator sees real-time prices fall 26% in the first half of 2016.

PJM’s Operating Committee reviewed tightened metering requirements and approved sunsetting the Systems Information Committee, reassigning its responsibilities to the Data Management Subcommittee and the new Tech Change Forum.

The PJM Market Implementation Committee discussed rules for releasing excess capacity, a plan to “un-nest” operating parameters and spot-in transmission from NYISO.

PJM will hold a meeting Monday to seek stakeholder input on options for replacing the Con Ed-PSEG “wheel.” NYISO meeting in September.

MISO wants to end the White Pine SSR for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, saying the ATC transmission reconfiguration will ensure reliability.

A federal judge in Southern California declined to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that CAISO unjustly deprived the Imperial Irrigation District  of its full export rights.