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.
MISO and PJM expect to begin implementing a two-part remedy to their double-charging of congestion fees on pseudo-tied generation early next year.
FERC declined to rehear an earlier ruling that denied a bid to extend interconnection rights to Big Rivers Electric's Coleman Station in Kentucky.
Richard Glick was sworn in at FERC, giving the commission four members as it awaits the arrival of its new chairman, Republican Kevin McIntyre.
FERC approved CAISO’s request to extend temporary market measures instituted last year in response to the closure of Aliso Canyon.
The Market Monitors for CAISO and PJM told a House subcommittee that their respective financial transmission rights markets are significantly flawed.
FERC ordered settlement judge procedures for a dispute involving Southwestern Electric Power Co.’s transmission rates.
FERC approved NYISO’s request for a 30-day extension for submitting additional reliability-must-run (RMR) tariff revisions.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Kansas regulators’ challenge to a 2014 FERC order approving SPP’s merger with the Integrated System.
FERC approved the cost allocation for projects involved with northern New Jersey’s Bergen-Linden Corridor.
CAISO and PG&E are opposing the terms of a reliability-must-run (RMR) agreement for 2 California natural gas-fired plants that Calpine submitted with FERC.
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