FERC & Federal
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is an independent regulatory agency that oversees the transmission of electricity, natural gas and oil in interstate commerce, as well as regulating hydroelectric dams and natural gas facilities.
The New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) filed a proposal with FERC Monday to codify its unwritten ban on press attendance at stakeholder meetings.
PJM staff are still working on how to respond to GreenHat Energy’s default in the financial transmission rights market.
Footprint Power asked FERC to dismiss allegations that it misled ISO-NE with supply offers for Salem Harbor it could not meet because of insufficient fuel.
Nonutility buyers have contracted for more than 3.5 GW of renewable energy in 2018, the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Business Renewables Center reported.
FERC wants PJM’s capacity rules to be resolved by Jan. 4 and has dispatched staff to help the RTO and its stakeholders adhere to that timeline.
PJM and FERC must reconsider how they allocate the costs of high-voltage transmission projects developed to satisfy individual utilities’ planning criteria.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the cost allocation for the Presque Isle system support resource agreements to Michigan Upper Peninsula consumers.
Cheryl LaFleur, who has been attending the FERC reliability technical conference since her appointment, always opens the meeting by citing something special about each year’s gathering.
Infocast’s first SPP and MISO Markets Summit attracted participants and industry representatives from the RTOs’ footprints for panel discussions.
Environmentalists and industrial consumers challenged a DOE-funded study that concludes U.S. economic growth would be boosted by unlimited LNG exports.
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