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.

At its April 16 open meeting, FERC issued new reliability standards, denied rehearing on business practices and ordered a new format for electronic filing reports.

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.

The electric and natural gas industries remain divided over the start of the gas day, nine months after FERC proposed changing the start time from 9 a.m. CT to 4 a.m. CT.

Utilities and independent power producers said the EPA should delay or eliminate the interim goals in its proposed Clean Power Plan.

Wisconsin utilities are joining those in sunnier climes in treating distributed solar as an existential threat.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals signaled that it may take another look at the court’s order voiding FERC Order 745.

Planners seeking to protect the grid against physical threats should consider transmission alternatives as well as security measures, PJM's Mike Kormos told a conference of state regulators.

News briefs on companies in PJM Interconnection: this week featuring EEI, NextEra, NRG, PPL, Exelon and Dynegy.

EPA regulations, cybersecurity, FERC enforcement and utility rate design dominated the discussions as more than 1,000 state regulators and industry officials gathered at the NARUC annual meeting in Orlando last week.