The second transmission line proposed to bring Canadian hydropower into the Northeast under Lake Champlain has advanced with the release of its draft environmental impact statement.

MISO stakeholders will complete voting on June 16 on three options for responding to FERC’s final rule on coordinating gas and electric schedules.

Transmission developer LS Power is protesting Order 1000 compliance filings by NYISO, SPP and ISO-NE, saying they still favor regulated incumbents over independent developers.

ISO-NE's power prices dropped by more than 40% in the first quarter of 2015 thanks to lower natural gas costs, the Internal Market Monitor reported.

The ISO-NE Market Monitor said the increase was largely driven by higher fuel costs in the first quarter.

FERC said it expects sufficient resources to meet peak electric demand this summer despite coal-fired retirements, while NERC approved its summer reliability assessment.

About 50 people attended a FERC scoping meeting on the Atlantic Bridge Project, which would expand the Algonquin pipeline.

FERC completed its initial review of all interregional transmission planning compliance filings required under Order 1000 on Thursday.

Robert Ethier has a dream: A day when ISO-NE no longer needs constant stakeholder meetings to tweak its market rules.

ISO-NE told FERC that GenOn Energy, facing millions in what it says are mistaken capacity charges, had plenty of time to correct the record.