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.
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FERC approved settlements with three utilities in the footprints of SERC Reliability and ReliabilityFirst, totaling $185,000 in penalties.
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SERC Reliability claimed Entergy staff ignored multiple high-priority warnings, one of which led to a loss of load for several customers, in determining the $1.25 million penalty.
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FERC granted Great Basin Transmission’s request for incentives and a transmission owner tariff for its SWIP-North line – rejecting arguments that the project no longer makes sense with the cancellation of the Lava Ridge wind farm.
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PJM told FERC that a complaint seeking to use statistics to estimate customers’ demand response when accessing meter data is not practical.
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FERC staff warned in a report that third-party cloud services pose an ongoing risk to the security of the electric grid.
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FERC rejected Tri-State Generation and Transmission’s proposed tariff to designed to manage the projected massive growth in data center load confronting its Mountain West member utilities over the next decade.
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Former FERC Chair Richard Glick and former FERC economist Devin Hartman told attendees at the Nodal Trader conference that they fear for FERC's independence.
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President Donald Trump named Laura Swett chair of FERC.
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Panelists at FERC's Reliability Task Force praised the efforts of NERC's Large Loads Task Force while highlighting the work still needed.
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Golden Spread Electric Cooperative will again appeal a stakeholder group’s rejection of a proposed tariff change that would pre-emptively determine the amount of load SPP's system can handle without requiring additional network upgrades.
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