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.
FERC Commissioner Robert Powelson said that he sees an “erosion of confidence” in RTO stakeholder processes.
FERC approved simultaneous transmission import limits for several balancing authority areas in the Southeast, stretching from Kentucky to Florida.
MISO’s Energy Storage Task Force will now add to its to-do list storage-related aspects of the recently issued FERC Order 845.
James Baker, an eminent Republican official who served in the Reagan and first Bush administrations, explained his proposed carbon tax at the GCPA spring conference.
The severity of the 2017 hurricane season was a major topic at New Mexico State University’s annual Current Issues Conference this year.
FERC told Congress it is ready to act on distributed energy resources (DER), assuring House members they will not encroach on state jurisdiction.
FERC ordered RTOs and ISOs to submit monthly reports detailing their uplift payments and operator-initiated commitments.
The West’s utility regulators took a crash course on the legal implications of their utilities joining organized electric markets (RTOs)at the spring 2018 joint CREPC-WIRAB meeting.
As they have in the past four years, the trends in natural gas dominated the discussion of FERC’s annual State of the Markets report.
FERC approved rules to prevent malware from infecting “low impact” computer systems through devices such as laptops and thumb drives.
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