FERC approved the CAISO natural gas price index used in response to the closure of the Aliso Canyon storage facility.

The latest ISO-NE briefing on its ongoing economic study focused on the shortfall of energy market revenues, prospects for storage and meeting RPS goals.

RTOs told FERC they are confident they will maintain reliability this winter, citing improvements in gas-electric coordination and monitoring tools.

CAISO is seeking stakeholder input on how to respond to a solar eclipse that will significantly curtail output from California’s growing solar generation portfolio next August.

FERC Chairman Norman Bay headlined the Organization of MISO States (OMS) annual meeting, where panelists discussed the grid of the future, the growing role of natural gas and the continuing uncertainty over state and federal regulators’ jurisdictions.

PJM is considering giving demand response participants injection rights in its effort to expand distributed energy resources’ access to wholesale markets.

This week's state briefs include news on Arizona, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York and others.

At the PJM Planning Committee last week, the RTO laid out a timeline for compliance with the geomagnetic disturbance reliability standard approved by FERC.

This week's company briefs include news on Dynegy, Duke Energy, Xcel and others.

The MISO Market Roadmap projects have been rearranged following stakeholder complaints over the lack of transparency behind the RTO’s reasoning.