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Entergy has agreed to sell a Rhode Island natural gas-fired power plant to The Carlyle Group for $490 million, a 40% mark-up in less than four years.

Massachusetts regulators ruled that electric distribution companies can sign contracts for natural gas capacity and pass the costs on to electric ratepayers.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said that long-term contracts for hydropower are the best way for the state to reduce rising energy costs and reduce greenhouse gases.

New England politicians' urge to “do something” to combat high winter power prices risks undermining ISO-NE’s power market just as it has begun adding new generation, the head of NEPGA said.

ISO-NE will again rely on the winter reliability program it has used for the last two winters, which gives oil generators incentives to secure fuel at the beginning of the winter.

PJM, MISO and ISO-NE would be forced to switch to 5-minute settlements under a draft rule announced Thursday.

FERC granted a waiver to a New England power generator that missed the deadline for a payment to increase the plant’s offer for the next Forward Capacity Auction.

RTO officials and market players new performance incentives and the pros and cons of energy-only scarcity pricing at EUCI’s Capacity Market conference.

ISO-NE's draft Regional System Plan also predicts challenges from generation retirements and integration of variable resources.