Low load growth and the shift from coal to natural gas mean a need for fewer baseline transmission projects, PJM said in its 2015 RTEP.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has accused NRG Energy of reneging on an agreement to repower the shuttered Dunkirk coal-fired power plant.

NRG said that it may only need to continue operating one of the two units at the Huntley plant.

The settlement provides guaranteed income for the output of AEP's 2,671-MW ownership share of nine power plants.

A senior EPA official and a panel of legal experts gave their own opinions at Infocast’s second Clean Power Plan Summit in Washington last week.

The New York PSC asked NYISO to perform reliability studies in western New York after NRG Energy announced it was retiring one coal plant and suspending plans to convert another to natural gas.

MISO planners who just completed the third phase of a study on the Clean Power Plan said last week that a “multibillion dollar” transmission build-out will be necessary in almost every compliance scenario they’ve anticipated.

Entergy has proposed closing one of its largest Arkansas coal plants by 2028 and making modifications to another to comply with EPA’s Regional Haze rule.

SPP's latest analysis of EPA’s draft Clean Power Plan indicates state-by-state compliance with the plan would result in nearly 40% higher costs than a regional approach.

The Supreme Court ruled that EPA acted “unreasonably” when it failed to consider costs before deciding to regulate mercury and other toxic emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act.