NYISO: The EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan threatens reliability in New York City due to the city’s frequent dependence on local oil-fueled generators.

SPP and MISO warned of a reliability crisis if the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan isn’t eased to account for up to 134 GW of generation retirements by 2020, most of them coal-fired units.

RTOs joined a chorus of critics last week in warning that the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan threatens grid reliability, saying the agency should provide more time for compliance.

News briefs from the states within the PJM footprint. This week we include Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.

State-by-state compliance with the EPA's proposed carbon emission rule would be almost 30% more expensive than a regional approach, according to preliminary results of PJM analyses.

Republicans threatened to blunt the Obama administration’s proposed carbon emissions rule after taking control of Congress in last week's elections.

Facing pushback to its proposed carbon rule, the EPA last week signaled a willingness to consider a slower shift from coal to natural gas generation.

State officials and generation owners promised last week to challenge the assumptions the EPA used in its proposed carbon rule.

The EPA’s proposed regulations on carbon emissions would increase electric bills and harm reliability, Virginia SCC staff members said.

A round-up of news from the PJM Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee on Oct. 9, 2014.