FERC announced it has finished work on establishing its new Office of Public Participation and that it will hire a director by Oct. 1.

FERC said it would reconsider Order 2222-A, continuing the debate over whether states should be able to prevent DR from participating in RTO/ISO markets.

Without any financial incentives from the federal level, utilities are unlikely to make the huge investments needed to deploy grid-enhancing technologies.

[Editor's Note: A previous version of this story used an image incorrectly labeled as the Weymouth Compressor Station.] FERC on Wednesday rejected requests for rehearing of its decision to examine safety concerns about the operation of a natural gas compressor station in Weymouth, Mass., saying its investigation did not "aggrieve"...

FERC approved two natural gas pipeline projects at a bitter open meeting Thursday after accepting a last-minute, one-sentence amendment from Commissioner James Danly to gain his support. Chairman Richard Glick and Commissioner Allison Clements, both Democrats, dissented in part. Since shortly after Glick joined FERC in 2017, the commission’s members...

The Energy Bar Association marked its 75th anniversary at its virtual annual meeting last week, which included sessions on capacity markets and resilience and remarks by FERC Chair Richard Glick. Here’s some of what we heard. Glick and Federal Policy Glick opened the meeting by answering several attendees’ questions related...

The U.S. Department of Transportation on Tuesday issued guidance on working with its state counterparts to facilitate the use of existing highway rights of way for building electric transmission lines. The memo encourages state transportation departments to consider not just transmission, but also renewable energy, broadband internet expansion, electric vehicle...

PJM’s minimum offer price rule (MOPR) is living on borrowed time if the comments at FERC’s technical conference on capacity markets Tuesday are any guide (AD21-10). FERC Chair Richard Glick and PJM CEO Manu Asthana both said the MOPR is not "sustainable" because it is frustrating state decarbonization efforts. "We’re...

Aggrieved landowners across the country told FERC on Wednesday that they doubted its new Office of Public Participation (OPP) would improve the commission’s decision-making over natural gas infrastructure. Still, many expressed gratitude to the commission for holding its first ever "listening session" and gathering input on the office, created in...

In a shift in commission policy, FERC on Thursday for the first time assessed the greenhouse gas emissions of a proposed natural gas infrastructure project and its impact on global climate change (CP20-487). Chair Richard Glick said he was able to reach a compromise with Commissioners Neil Chatterjee and Allison...