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 said MISO's current schedule doesn’t allow gas-fired generators enough time to procure fuel.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week sided with FERC in the latest chapter of the long-running legal dispute over the California-West Coast energy crisis of 2000-2001.
CAISO told FERC that its software’s inability to recognize available balancing capacity was creating false scarcity in the market.
A summary of orders approved by FERC at its open meeting on Dec. 17, 2015., concerning PATH reimbursement and MISO SSR procedures.
ALLETE won FERC approval last week for rate incentives on the Great Northern Transmission Line between Manitoba and Minnesota.
FERC ordered ETRACOM and its principal trader Michael Rosenberg to respond to allegations that they manipulated the CAISO energy market.
FERC affirmed an administrative law judge’s 2014 ruling finding fault with Entergy’s accounting in in its fourth annual bandwidth filing.
GSA is urging D.C. regulators to reject the Exelon-Pepco merger unless the companies can revise their settlement with the district government.
PSEG and P3 had disputed PJM’s use of an 8% cost of capital used in cost of new entry calculations.
The budget bill signed by President Obama will spark a sharp acceleration of solar power in the next several years, analysts say.
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