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 Energy Bar Association closed its annual meeting with an entertaining panel discussion with five former FERC chairs.
It’s been 10 years since FERC revised its enforcement policy guidelines, and two former commission attorneys think it might be time for a check-up.
As FERC considers changes in its merger policy, panelists at the Energy Bar Association (EBA) discussed the pros and cons of adding tests to determine market power.
FERC’s delay in responding to the D.C. Circuit’s Emera Maine return-on-equity ruling has created uncertainty, a panel told the Energy Bar Association’s (EBA) annual meeting.
Votes on the House floor kept a House Energy Subcommittee hearing on transmission planning to about 90 minutes.
FERC should let RTO stakeholder processes work and not issue broad and costly new mandates on grid resilience, commenters told the commission.
Grid resilience, apparently, is in the eye of the beholder. But a new report asks the power industry to look to the customer to find the real meaning of the concept.
RTO Insider’s Rich Heidorn Jr. spoke with Christina Simeone of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy about her study on PJM’s governance.
NERC
FERC approved the dissolution of the SPP Regional Entity and the transfer of its members to the Midwest Reliability Organization and SERC Reliability Corp.
Coal plant retirements have not caused a shortage of black start resources, but grid operators should consider expanded testing, FERC and NERC said.
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