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The decades-long move to competitive wholesale and retail electric markets still stirs controversy, but the benefits sway attitudes, former regulators say.
FERC has undertaken an ambitious agenda for this year that will face numerous headwinds from administrative challenges, not least of which remains the pandemic.
Neil Chatterjee’s 4 years at FERC transformed him from playing a partisan game of thrones to advocating for a carbon price as a way to mitigate climate change.
FERC Commissioner Neil Chatterjee bid farewell and thanked his colleagues and staff during what he said was “very likely” his last monthly open meeting.
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...
FERC last week granted a wind farm developer’s second request for a waiver from SPP’s generator interconnection procedures that will allow the RTO to evaluate an alternative interconnection point in the generator interconnection agreement, drawing a dissent from two commissioners (ER21-1023). In its April 26 order, the commission said that...
In a move that rankled some power industry participants, FERC voted Thursday to approve a supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would scale back a transmission rate adder designed to encourage utilities to join RTOs. The vote represented a sharp turnabout from last March, when the commission advanced a proposal...