The Clean Power Plan may face an uncertain future in the courts, but investors and utility executives said it won’t upset the long-term shift away from coal-fired generation and toward increased efficiency.

EPA's final Clean Power Plan provoked outrage from coal interests, praise from environmentalists and cautious optimism from regulators and grid operators.

EPA's final Clean Power Plan relaxes some controversial proposals while increasing its target for carbon emission reductions.

AEP celebrated increased second-quarter profits last week, but the company said it still needs the PUCO to approve the so-called “guaranteed rate” plan to support its generating plants.

The U.S. electric industry will face reliability concerns in four years if the interim goals of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan aren’t relaxed, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said last week.

This week's company briefs include news on Duke Energy, NextEra Energy, Enbridge Energy, Dominion Resources and NuScale Power.

Duke Energy said Friday that it had reached a $102.2 million settlement with the federal government to end the investigation into the Dan River ash spill and the company’s ash basin operations at other North Carolina plants.

News briefs on companies doing business with RTOs. This week we include Duke, FirstEnergy, Dominion, Entergy, MDU Resources, Minwind Energy and NextEra.

The EPA last week issued the first-ever federal regulations on the handling and storage of coal ash, pleasing utilities and disappointing environmentalists by declining to classify the material as hazardous waste.

Depressed coal stockpiles have led to increases in MISO’s off-peak power prices and the cost impacts could increase with a repeat of last winter’s severe cold, officials said last week.