Infrastructure expansion has been the dominant theme in New England in recent years, and 2016 appears to be no different.

FERC denied rehearing of its June decision certifying the ninth Forward Capacity Auction results in ISO-NE.

A summary of issues discussed by the ISO-NE Planning Advisory Committee on Dec. 14, 2015, including the benfits of wind power.

Generators are protesting the way in which ISO-NE is calculating its installed capacity requirement for its 10th Forward Capacity Auction.

FERC approved PJM’s proposal to move the deadline for submitting day-ahead offers, while also saying NYISO and ISO-NE had justified retaining their existing schedules.

The developers of the Northern Pass transmission line may have to fight in court before they turn the first shovel of dirt on their project to deliver Canadian hydropower to the New England grid.

FERC had said neither ISO-NE’s nor the New England Power Pool’s proposals in themselves addressed performance adequacy, but the commission adopted elements of both.

FERC has again denied a rehearing request by Public Citizen over the results of ISO-NE’s eighth Forward Capacity Auction.

Spectra Energy’s Algonquin Gas Transmission asked FERC to grant permission for the pre-filing review on the proposed Access Northeast project by Nov. 13.

ISO-NE and the New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) bar the public and the press from virtually all of their stakeholder meetings.