Category — Business Developments

On January 8, 2010, Pepco Holdings Inc. (“Pepco”) asked the Maryland Public Service Commission (“PSC”) to suspend their procedural schedule for the Mid-Atlantic Power Pathway transmission project (“MAPP”).  [Read more →]

On December 29, 2009, Alleghany Energy Inc. (“Allegheny”) and American Electric Power Co. (“AEP”) announced that they are suspending the Virginia portion of their 270-mile high-voltage Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline project (“PATH Project”).  [Read more →]

On August 31, 2009, the Climate Change Policy Partnership based at Duke University released a report, Electrical Transmission-Barriers and Policy Solutions, suggesting that real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) could provide the vehicle for creating the capital necessary to expand the national transmission grid in order to meet future electricity demands.  [Read more →]

On July 23, 2009, the Commission’s Enforcement Litigation Staff (“Staff”), Amaranth Advisors LLC (“Amaranth”), and one of Amaranth’s two former gas traders filed a new settlement in its high-profile enforcement case. The Commission previously rejected a settlement submitted by the parties earlier this year (See February 20, 2009 edition of the WER). [Read more →]

On July 20, 2009, Entergy Services, Inc. (“Entergy”) submitted comments indicating that it will consider becoming a member of the Southwest Power Pool (“SPP”). Entergy’s filing addressed issues raised during the Joint FERC and State Regulator Conference held on June 24, 2009, in Charleston, South Carolina. [Read more →]