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.
President Trump announced six “initiatives” in a speech at Energy Department headquarters Thursday, saying they would create “American energy dominance.”
President Trump intends to nominate Richard Glick, general counsel for the Democrats on Senate ENR to replace FERC Commissioner Colette Honorable.
FERC approved a proposal by PJM and MISO to create a new category of interregional projects while cautioning that the measure could see revisions.
The Mid-America Regulatory Conference drew an above-capacity assembly of public utility regulators, legal counsel and other industry insiders.
FERC Commissioner Colette Honorable tweeted late Monday night that Friday, June 30 (the last day of her term) would be her last day at the commission.
CAISO last week proposed to eliminate from its Tariff an annual state transmission concept plan that it says is obsolete due to FERC Order 1000.
A decade of mandatory standards has improved the grid’s reliability, but it’s time for regulators to prune unnecessary rules, speakers told FERC.
A proposed law giving FERC authority over the licensing of all hydropower projects has advanced to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals denied eight challenges to PJM’s Capacity Performance rules, potentially cementing changes to the RTO's capacity market.
PJM secured U.S. Department of Energy approval to dispatch Dominion's shuttered Yorktown units to address reliability issues in Virginia.
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