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 approved SPP’s plan to streamline the process by which it designates frequently constrained areas, and it denied a complaint by NPPD.
MISO
FERC accepted a revised generator interconnection agreement (GIA) between MISO and the Crescent Wind Farm in Michigan.
ENGIE
FERC voted 2-1 to approve ISO-NE’s cost-of-service agreement with Exelon for its Mystic plant, including payments to the company’s Distrigas LNG facility.
GAO Analysis of Transportation Security Administration
TSA oversight of natural gas pipeline security is hampered by staffing constraints and vague criteria for identifying critical facilities, GAO reported.
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Bernard McNamee was greeted at FERC's open meeting by protests and questions of whether he would recuse himself from dockets on grid resilience.
ISO-NE
FERC approved new ISO-NE penalties for market participants that fail to cover their capacity supply obligations when a new resource is delayed.
NYISO must revise its rules governing the installation and reading of DR meters for participants in its Installed Capacity market, FERC ruled.
Environmentals asked FERC Commissioner Bernard McNamee to recuse himself from the commission’s resilience dockets because of his advocacy for coal and nuclear plants during his time at the Department of Energy.
EKPC
FERC approved PJM’s proposal to exclude atypically low usage winter peak days from load-serving entities’ winter peak load calculations.
Tension between PJM and certain states has not loosened, judging by comments made at a forum held by the Great Plains Institute and the Nicholas Institute.
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