The New York Public Service Commission unanimously approved renewing Westchester County’s community choice aggregation program.

The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) held its annual meeting where new President Nick Wagner expressed his vision for 2019.

FERC approved NERC’s revised geomagnetic disturbance reliability standard, which requires grid operators to collect data and imposes deadlines for actions.

FERC moved to apply its proposed new methodology for calculating transmission owners’ return on equity rates to dockets in MISO and the South.

FERC would no longer review mergers valued at less than $10 million under a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.

Transmission owners will be required to reduce their rates to reflect reduced corporate income taxes under a proposal issued by FERC.

FERC clarified that rehearing requests on Order 845 did not delay its effective date, only the date that compliance filings are due.

New York electricity market stakeholders reviewed three separate studies to evaluate the implications of a carbon charge in NYISO’s energy markets.

NYISO’s Board of Directors continues to perform due diligence on the AC Public Policy Transmission Project and could issue a decision at its Dec. 6 meeting or early next year.

NYISO floated a plan to calculate the carbon pricing impact on locational-based marginal prices (LBMPc) using the social cost of carbon.