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 Biden signed the $1.2 trillion, bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, drawing praise from across the energy sector.
FERC Chair Richard Glick said there is “a lot to be done” to build out the transmission grid to handle the clean energy transition.
Utility and RTO officials at NARUC’s annual meeting expressed hope for FERC’s recent ANOPR aimed at improving regional transmission planning.
A Climate Action Tracker report says the 2030 NDCs and binding long-term and net-zero targets out of COP26 will only keep temperature rise to 2.1 C.
The Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission convened its first meeting before NARUC with optimism, debates and a sense of urgency.
A trio of experts at NARUC's annual meeting presented various perspectives on reaching net-zero emissions.
FERC accepted revisions to four SEEM utilities' tariffs implementing the special transmission service used to deliver the market’s energy transactions.
The PJM Power Providers Group petitioned the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to review PJM’s narrowed MOPR after FERC deadlocked on the RTO’s proposal.
FERC determined that GreenHat Energy and its owners violated the Federal Power Act by “engaging in a manipulative scheme” in PJM’s FTR market.
Regulatory hurdles remain for Tri-State G&T, despite FERC's acceptance of the cooperative's controversial exit-fee methodology for its members.
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