At the NARUC Summer Committee Meetings, stakeholders discussed public opposition to infrastructure development, the need for more utility workers and the Plains & Eastern Clean Line.

FERC directed NERC to develop a “forward-looking, objective-based” critical infrastructure protection reliability standard for supply chain management.

FERC accepted PJM’s cost responsibility assignments for 33 of 34 baseline upgrades, ordering the RTO to change the billing for one Dominion project.

New wind generators will be required to provide reactive power following a FERC order eliminating their exemption from having to provide the service.

RTOs will be required to align their settlement and dispatch intervals under new price formation rules approved by FERC.

FERC ruled 3-1 that EDF Energy's Merricourt wind project had failed to meet the deadlines in MISO’s interconnection procedure.

FERC won’t be revisiting the demand response compensation rules under Order 745, commissioners said at the NARUC winter meetings.

FERC last week reaffirmed its rejection of MISO’s proposal to institute a mandatory capacity market, denying rehearing of its 2012 order on the issue.

Seeking to improve its ability to unravel complicated market manipulation schemes, FERC proposed a new way for identifying connections between companies and individuals.

FERC said it will require NERC to provide the commission access to its databases in what Chairman Norman Bay said is an effort to apply “Moneyball” techniques to reliability.