Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
President Donald Trump plans to nominate Laura Swett of Vinson & Elkins to replace FERC Chair Mark Christie.
The U.S. Department of Energy issued an emergency order to keep Constellation Energy’s Eddystone Units 3 and 4, located outside Philadelphia, online under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act.
PJM asked FERC to grant it more time to find candidates to fill two Board of Managers positions vacated when the Members Committee voted against reelecting two incumbents.
FERC accepted a 17-month delay to ISO-NE and transmission owners’ implementation of Order 881 and Order 881-A compliance, pushing back the rollout of ambient-adjusted line ratings in the region.
FERC will hold a two-day technical conference June 4-5, where it will look at resource adequacy issues in the ISO/RTO markets, with most of the focus on those with capacity markets.
FERC rejected a request by four Western utilities to rehear its approval of the “transmission contributors” option in the SPP Markets+ tariff but provided the utilities clarification on the boundaries of that provision.
NERC answered several objections raised by a nonprofit group in reaction to the ERO's proposed cold weather standard.
FERC is resolute in its support of MISO’s annual megawatt cap in its generator interconnection queue.
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