Prompted by a petition from Bloom Energy, FERC proposed to include solid oxide fuel cells as qualifying cogeneration facilities under PURPA.

FERC has allowed MISO to avoid eight years of resettlement work on certain manual dispatches dating back to early 2009.

In a 142-page ruling, FERC partly affirmed an administrative law judge’s decision on PG&E’s proposed increases to its transmission rates.

A panel examining FERC’s response to the D.C. Circuit’s Allegheny ruling evolved into an in-depth Q&A with acting General Counsel David Morenoff.

FERC declined to rehear its February order approving a NYISO proposal to apply buyer-side mitigation to energy storage resources.

FERC accepted PJM’s proposed Tariff revisions on fast-start pricing to resolve inaccuracy and dispatch misalignment issues.

FERC approved most of PJM’s compliance filing on its expanded MOPR while reversing its position on state-directed default service auctions.

FERC approved CAISO’s procedure for distributing more than $2 million in penalty proceeds and nonrefundable interconnection study deposits to its members.

FERC reversed course and said MISO, SPP and PJM don’t have to rely on eachother’s dispatch assumptions to carry out an affected-system study.

FERC invited states to introduce carbon pricing in wholesale markets but said it had no authority to initiate such programs itself.