Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is an independent agency that regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas and oil; reviews proposals to build LNG terminals and interstate natural gas pipelines; and licenses hydropower projects. FERC also oversees operations of regional wholesale electricity and natural gas markets and oversees the reliability of the bulk electric system.
FERC devoted most of its open meeting to honoring deceased Commissioner Kevin McIntyre, with Chairman Neil Chatterjee delivering an emotional eulogy.
FERC ordered hearing and settlement procedures on a complaint by the Louisiana PSC alleging its ratepayers are being overcharged by an Entergy subsidiary.
ISO-NE urged FERC to reject a protest over the RTO’s proposed “test price” mechanism to be applied to resources seeking to retire capacity.
FERC's Bernard McNamee informed Democrats that ethics advisers said he was not required to recuse himself from the commission’s resilience inquiry.
FERC approved PJM Tariff changes designed to be compliant with Order 844 by improving participants’ insight into transmission constraint penalty factors.
FERC disclosed data underlying its new formula for setting ROE rates for New England transmission owners and explained how it influenced the methodology.
Steve Huntoon, our Counteflow columnist, looks back at 4 years of his "scribblings" to see what he got right, what he got wrong, and what’s happened since.
FERC approved ISO-NE’s proposed values for the Installed Capacity Requirement, capability credits and related values in time for the capacity auction.
FERC accepted NYISO’s Order 844 filing, which establishes procedures for reporting uplift payments, operator-initiated commitments and more.
The OMS and the OPSI urged FERC to examine whether current return on equity incentives on top of a new base ROE will result in excessive customer costs.
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