Articles by Michael Brooks

By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — FERC General Counsel James Danly received little scrutiny at his confirmation hearing Tuesday, even as Democrats complained about President Trump neglecting to pair his nomination to the commission with one from their party. FERC General Counsel James Danly gives opening remarks at his confirmation hearing...

By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — The International Summit on the Electric Transmission Grid was billed by trade group WIRES as an opportunity "to discuss and support the robust interregional and cross-border grid of the future." But though it was hosted at the Canadian Embassy and featured several Canadian speakers, the...

By Michael Brooks LEXINGTON, Ky. — FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee’s EnVision Forum, held last week at the University of Kentucky, was a unique energy conference in several ways, from the diverse lineup of speakers, to the wide variation in panel topics. Perhaps most unique, however, was its location. It wasn’t...

By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — PJM’s conference to discuss its $12.5 million settlement with two financial transmission rights trading firms produced neither protest nor complaint from any of the many stakeholders who phoned in to listen Thursday. Held in a sparsely filled hearing room at FERC headquarters, the RTO had...

By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — FERC observers have grown used to Commissioner Richard Glick criticizing his Republican colleagues at open meetings for not considering the downstream impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from the natural gas pipelines they approve. In Glick’s view, Chairman Neil Chatterjee and Commissioner Bernard McNamee are simply...

By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee emphatically denied Thursday that he is considering resigning from the commission by the end of the year, as was reported by POLITICO earlier this week. "Let me say it right now: I’m not going to take a job at an RTO...

By Michael Brooks and Rich Heidorn Jr. Public utility commissions from coal-producing states are urging FERC to finish work on its docket opened in January 2018 to solicit information on the issue of grid resilience (AD18-7). FERC has received letters from at least six state commissions, beginning in late August...

By Michael Brooks FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee on Thursday released an ambitious, star-studded agenda for the commission’s energy conference to be held Oct. 21 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Dubbed the EnVision Forum, the daylong conference will feature 12 panels, three at a time, with some moderated by...

WASHINGTON — More than 100 stakeholders gathered at the law offices of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius for Raab Associates’ Energy Policy Roundtable in the PJM Footprint. Panelists discussed the potential for storage resources in the RTO’s markets and the state of climate change politics in the U.S. | © RTO...

By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — FERC has shifted several employees out of its Office of Enforcement, eliminating the office’s Division of Energy Market Oversight (DEMO), Chairman Neil Chatterjee announced Thursday during the commission’s open meeting. FERC commissioners and staff just prior to the start of the monthly open meeting Sept.