Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Change is coming to FERC after Tuesday's election, but the policies the agency oversees are rarely top of mind during campaigns, so it is unclear how much will be different.
NERC submitted five reliability standards to FERC this week as the first tranche of rules governing inverter-based resources mandated in an order last year.
FERC accepted SPP’s tariff revisions that add a winter season resource adequacy requirement for load-responsible entities, extending its summer RA requirement.
NERC released the final draft installments of the ITCS this week, identifying 35 GW of prudent transfer capability additions.
On top of its 350 MW of current data center load, PSEG has received formal applications for nearly 400 MW of new data center load and inquiries on over 1,200 MW in data center feasibility studies in new business.
Constellation Energy remains bullish on data centers co-located with nuclear power plants, despite FERC rejecting terms for the expansion of one such agreement in a high-profile ruling.
A common refrain at FERC’s technical conference on the co-location of data centers was that the issue is just part the broader problem of resource adequacy.
FERC rejected an amended ISA filed by PJM to allow an existing data center co-located at a Talen Energy nuclear plant to expand, saying it did not meet the commission's standards for changes from its pro forma rules.
FERC Commissioner David Rosner talked about his hope for more consensus on rehearing for Order 1920, and a panel of experts discussed supply chain issues at the WIRES fall meeting.
FERC approved a settlement between Entergy and SERC Reliability that will see the utility pay $141,000 for violating NERC's reliability standards.
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