SPP members rejected a request for a waiver from a rule barring base plan transmission funding for wind generation projects that push wind’s share of capacity above 20% of summer peak load.
This week's federal briefs include news on the Keystone XL Pipeline, the EPA's Clean Power Plan, the NRC, the EIA and the Energy Department.
Stinging from objections to Entergy’s proposed Lake Charles transmission upgrade, MISO has launched discussions that could lead to refinements in its procedures for handling out-of-cycle requests.
At its April 16 open meeting, FERC issued new reliability standards, denied rehearing on business practices and ordered a new format for electronic filing reports.
FERC completed a bloodless transition Thursday as newcomer Norman Bay replaced five-year veteran Cheryl LaFleur as chairman.
FERC approved an uncontested settlement over the 2010 move by two Duke Energy subsidiaries from MISO into PJM.
FERC backtracked from its January order directing ISO-NE to develop a market-based approach for its winter reliability program later this year.
FERC Chairman Norman Bay named Larry Gasteiger as his chief of staff and Larry Parkinson as the director of the commission’s Office of Enforcement.
SPP’s Markets & Operations Policy Committee approved new rules on how mitigated offers will be calculated for generators that fail market power tests.
SPP staff’s recommendation that the RTO approve a 21-mile 115-kV line from Walkemeyer to North Liberal as part of a reliability solution in southwestern Kansas failed to win stakeholder endorsement.
