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.
PJM and its Transmission Owners filed a response to address what FERC deemed deficiencies in their plan to integrate multi-driver projects into the RTEP.
News briefs on the federal agencies that impact those doing business in the RTO footprints. This week we include the NRC, the EPA, FERC and the BOEM.
MISO and reliability watchdogs have reached a settlement over self-reported violations related to MISO’s ability to maintain visibility over its reliability coordinator area following a contingency event.
Demand response and advanced meters are continuing to grow but progress is uneven, with some regions showing reductions, according to a new report by FERC.
Two more wind farms have joined a complaint against NIPSCO, asking FERC to cut the $35.8 million bill the utility assessed them for transmission upgrades.
Twin Cities Power will pay $3.5 million for manipulating energy prices in MISO under a settlement approved by FERC last week.
FERC rejected a challenge by NESCOE to recalculate the contributions of DR and distributed resources in advance of ISO-NE FCA 9.
AES will sell up to 30% of Indianapolis Power & Light to raise capital for environmental upgrades on its coal-fired generation fleet.
The EPA last week issued the first-ever federal regulations on the handling and storage of coal ash, pleasing utilities and disappointing environmentalists by declining to classify the material as hazardous waste.
FERC is starting the process of arbitrating interregional Order 1000 compliance filings, beginning last week with PJM and MISO.
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