The state's utilities, DER providers and CAISO outline a new plan that would streamline communications between transmission and distribution operators and DER developers. 

Mississippi regulators plan to order the utility to draw up a plan for the Kemper plant that would allow the facility to run only on natural gas and limit further rate increases to customers. 

As Secretary Perry testifies in Congress about the budget, a DOE spokesperson said the controversial grid study's release is delayed until July. 

The measure would cost $16 million over 10 years and remove the requirement that a nuclear plant must be in service by 2020 to receive the tax credit.

The town of Decorah has less than 10,000 residents and currently takes service through Alliant Energy. But the utility's franchise agreement expires in less than a year.