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.
PJM stakeholders endorsed an update to the generation deactivation process as some members asked the RTO to slightly modify the proposed timing language.
MISO has FERC permission to whittle its generator interconnection from more than 500 days to a single year for some willing interconnection customers.
FERC accepted PJM’s revisions intended to increase transparency into and the efficiency of the RTO’s ARR and financial FTR markets.
FERC has again denied a waiver request from Invenergy over SPP’s financial security posting requirements, saying it doesn't address a concrete problem.
Most speakers at CERAWeek addressed Russian’s invasion of Ukraine and the alarming upheaval in energy, commodity and financial markets it has created.
The D.C. Circuit Court ruled that FERC had failed to account for the downstream the greenhouse gas emissions of a compressor station in Agawam, Mass.
FERC issued two deficiency letters to MISO over the grid operator’s plans to institute a four-season capacity market and a minimum capacity rule.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission cited the Davis-Besse nuclear plant in Ohio for improper maintenance of its very large emergency diesel generators.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied petitions for review of a settlement that allocated transmission costs in PJM.
ERCOT and Brazos Electric Power have agreed to enter mediation over the amount of money the bankrupt cooperative owes the Texas grid operator’s market.
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