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By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — House Energy and Commerce Committee members seeking details about foreign cyber threats were left wanting Friday as grid reliability officials declined to discuss specifics. Appearing before the committee’s Subcommittee on Energy, NERC CEO Jim Robb, FERC Office of Electric Reliability Director Andy Dodge and Karen...
By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — CAISO, SPP and BC Hydro officials reassured FERC on Thursday that the Western Interconnection’s transition from two reliability coordinators to five is going smoothly and that everything will be ready by the time Peak Reliability closes shop Dec. 3. "We are ready," Dede Subakti, CAISO...
By Michael Brooks Ørsted’s 1,100-MW Ocean Wind project won the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities’ first offshore wind power solicitation last week, setting the record for the single largest award for the resource in the U.S. The board selected Ocean Wind over two other projects: Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind,...
By Michael Brooks FERC on Thursday upheld NYISO’s decision to deny a New York energy service company’s application to join the ISO until its predecessor pays its outstanding debt (EL19-39). Light Power & Gas of NY told FERC in January that NYISO had violated its Tariff and the Federal Power...
WASHINGTON — The Energy Bar Association’s Northeast Chapter held its annual meeting last week in a small conference room within the offices of law firm Baker Botts. Members discussed the state of the offshore wind industry, RTO analyses of fuel security and the ongoing tension between markets and state policies.
By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — Several members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy on Wednesday urged FERC commissioners to holistically review RTO and ISO governance rules, while also pressing them on when to expect decisions on languishing dockets — including PJM’s capacity market proposal. The commissioners...
By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — FERC on Thursday officially rescinded its controversial policy of allowing its Office of Enforcement to publicly disclose its investigations of possible misconduct and their subjects’ identities, ending a practice in place since 2011 (PL10-2-003). The commission in 2009 authorized Enforcement to issue a Notice of...
By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — FERC voted 3-1 on Thursday to approve the construction of a fourth liquefaction unit at the Freeport LNG export terminal in Brazoria County, Texas (CP17-470). The unit, called a "train" in the LNG industry, will allow for the export of an additional 5.1 million metric...
By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — By now, ERCOT’s low reserve margin heading into this summer has been a much-discussed topic. The grid operator anticipates its reserve margin will be 8.5%, well below its 13.75% target, indicating a possibility it will need to issue an energy emergency alert at some point...
