The South Carolina Public Service Commission will discuss Dominion Energy Inc.’s $14.6-billion acquisition of SCANA Corporation, including the process of integrating departments, timelines for combining services and construction progress reports. The companies announced the merger in January after SCANA subsidiary South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. decided last July to abandon a $9-billion expansion of the V.C. Summer nuclear plant. Dominion seeks to complete the transaction by year end. (2017-370-E)

The Idaho Public Utilities Commission will discuss the proposed acquisition of Avista Corp. by Hydro One Limited, a Canadian transmission and distribution service provider. Under the $5.3-billion, all-cash merger announced in July 2017, the combined companies will create one of North America’s largest regulated utilities with over $25 billion in total assets, serving more than two million retail and industrial customers in Ontario, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. The companies will revise a settlement reached in April that would protect Avista’s Idaho customers from costs associated with the merger transaction and shield Avista from the potential financial issues of Hydro One. (AVU-G-17-05)

The California Public Utilities Commission, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the National Institute of Standards and Technology will discuss revisions and updates to the Smart Grid Interoperability Framework. Participants will discuss smart grid scenarios focused on growing utilization of distributed energy resources in western markets and the challenges it presents for grid operations in that region.

The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission will examine voluntarily-filed information on CenterPoint Energy Inc.’s move to acquire Vectren Corporation. Indiana-based Vectren’s subsidiaries provide electricity and gas services across Indiana and Ohio. The combined company is expected to have electric and natural gas delivery operations in eight states with assets totaling $29 billion and an enterprise value of $27 billion, according to the applicants. Texas-based CenterPoint serves customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas. The companies have filed informational proceedings with Indiana and Ohio although the states do not have approval authority over the merger. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2019. (45109)