Coal's best hope may be that FERC adopt the DOE grid study's recommendation to lean on RTOs to value on-site fuel storage as a proxy for resiliency.

FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jones said that he thinks the “country is heading for a disaster” because of its over-reliance on natural gas for generating power.

PJM secured U.S. Department of Energy approval to dispatch Dominion's shuttered Yorktown units to address reliability issues in Virginia.

PJM announced at last week’s Markets and Reliability Committee meeting that a scheduled vote on new pseudo-tie provisions would be postponed.

A summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability Committee.

While interest groups and coal-state lawmakers praised President Trump's recent executive order, most reactions ranged from skepticism to derision.

The Reliability Subcommittee is concerned about the reliability of MISO’s frequency response under a changing resource mix.

FERC on approved the sale the same day Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed the generators would “transition” away from coal.

The SPP State of the Market report said coal-fired resources accounted for 52.1% of generation in the fall of 2015, compared to 62.7% in 2013.

Additional retirements of coal-fired generation could increase MISO production costs by as much as $97B, according to an analysis of the Clean Power Plan.