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.
FERC decided it’s practical for MISO to have an almost three-year extension of the commission’s directive to implement ambient adjusted transmission line ratings.
FERC accepted a 17-month delay to ISO-NE and transmission owners’ implementation of Order 881 and Order 881-A compliance, pushing back the rollout of ambient-adjusted line ratings in the region.
The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee has approved tariff revisions that would implement dispatchable transactions in the real-time energy market.
Utilities and grid operators urged caution on new dynamic line rating requirements while state regulators, consumers and grid enhancing technology firms said they want the mandates.
The commission received dozens of comments on its advanced notice of proposed rulemaking that would require broad use of dynamic line ratings across the U.S. transmission grid.
NYISO requested a three-year extension to comply with FERC Order 881, saying it needs more time to implement software and hardware updates needed to support ambient-adjusted ratings on transmission lines.