A wide ranging group of consumer organizations filed a complaint with FERC that seeks to rein in what they say is excess utility spending on transmission under local planning processes.

Change is coming to FERC after Tuesday's election, but the policies the agency oversees are rarely top of mind during campaigns, so it is unclear how much will be different.

FERC is considering additional changes to its rules on generator interconnections, with a technical conference set for Sept. 10-11 that saw pre-conference comments filed this week.

The Energy Choice Coalition hosted a webinar that focused on a recent report from the R Street Institute that examined how restructuring has impacted the electric industry at both the wholesale and retail levels.

Texas regulators are pushing a performance credit mechanism that requires load-serving entities to buy performance-based credits from generation resources.

The decades-long move to competitive wholesale and retail electric markets still stirs controversy, but the benefits sway attitudes, former regulators say.

Competitive generators and others discussed market changes at the Electric Power Supply Association Competitive Power Summit at the National Press Club.

Extreme weather events have brought “extraordinary clarity” about reliability risks posed by climate change, NERC CEO Jim Robb told an EPSA conference.

The Midwest has become ground zero for the future of transmission policy because of incumbent TOs' stifling control, R Street Institute's Devin Hartman says.

A panel of conservative electricity market experts argued that markets work better than public policy at encouraging and developing clean energy resources.