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.
A group of Upper Peninsula electric users in MISO plans to ask FERC to investigate WEPCo. for allegedly falsifying records to increase its revenues under the Presque Isle SSR.
Eleven respondents have submitted proposals for the Duff-Coleman project in MISO, the RTO’s first competitive project under FERC Order 1000.
CAISO is refining a proposal for cost allocation of new transmission facilities in an expanded balancing authority that would include areas of the West outside California.
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MISO filed revised Tariff language allowing it to recover costs for multi-value transmission projects that benefit PJM customers by charging a fee on exports to PJM.
FERC ordered ISO-NE to provide it more information to prove that the 2013-14 winter reliability program resulted in just and reasonable rates.
CAISO last week began work on a plan to extend external resource participation in the western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM).
FERC is giving until Sept. 2 to provide comments on recommended changes to Order 1000 following a June technical conference.
FERC certified a settlement between Entergy Services and the Louisiana PSC in the corporation’s ninth annual bandwidth filing under its system agreement.
Regulators urged their colleagues at the NARUC summer conference to join them in developing cybersecurity rules for electric distribution companies.
Less than a year after enjoying a 2-cent reduction in SPP’s administrative fee, the RTO’s members are now facing the prospect of a 4-cent hike for 2017.
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