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 an open access transmission tariff for the SunZia HVDC line in the Southwest, which will govern how the merchant project can sell any additional capacity it has going forward.
New Brunswick Energy Marketing argued in its 2022 filing that a delivered price test and additional evidence indicate it does not have market power, despite the screen failure.
SPP stakeholders approved two revision requests that set resource adequacy policies, but not before rejecting a compromise position offered by two stakeholder groups.
A Blackstone subsidiary is free to acquire an almost 20% stake in Northern Indiana Public Service Co. after FERC’s consent.
FERC granted a solar developer’s request for a 28-month extension of its commercial operation deadline, finding that it had acted in good faith to develop the facility.
NYISO will ask FERC to eliminate certain interconnection study processes and give queued projects more flexibility to proceed.
ISO-NE can consider transmission-only battery storage as an option to address transmission system issues, FERC ruled.
FERC issued a final rule Thursday directing NERC to develop standards to improve the reliability of inverter-based resources.
FERC approved a transmission asset swap between Idaho Power and PacificCorp as part of the companies’ plans to develop a 300-mile-long, 500-kV line.
FERC is moving to grant a solar developer’s request to force the Arizona Electric Power Cooperative to allow interconnection.
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