FERC & Federal
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is an independent regulatory agency that oversees the transmission of electricity, natural gas and oil in interstate commerce, as well as regulating hydroelectric dams and natural gas facilities.
Hundreds of investors, utility executives and others gathered for Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Future of Energy Summit.
DC-Circuit
A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals questioned FERC over its approval of ISO-NE’s renewable exemption from the MOPR.
Nuclear Energy Institute CEO Maria Korsnick expressed support for FirstEnergy’s request that the Department of Energy declare an emergency in PJM.
Invenergy
Grid operators and regulators hashed out the complexities of integrating distributed energy resources (DER) during a FERC technical conference on boosting the role of energy storage.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry indicated he was not likely to declare an emergency to keep FirstEnergy Solutions’ (FES) struggling power plants operating.
Deepwater Wind
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced two new proposed offshore wind leases for Massachusetts, while BOEM issued a call for commercial interest in the New York Bight.
U.S. Coast Guard
MISO began using Wisconsin transmission to deliver electricity to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula after the failure of two ATC submarine cables.
PSEG
FERC said that a preliminary investigation indicates that PSEG committed multiple violations of PJM market-bidding rules and made “false and misleading statements” to RTO staff.
Generation developers and transmission providers called for more direction from FERC to improve coordination of “affected system” studies.
FirstEnergy Solutions filed for bankruptcy Saturday, two days after asking Energy Secretary Rick Perry to issue an emergency order directing PJM to compensate coal-fired and nuclear power plants.
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