FERC Issues Orders in Cases Involving Ra...
By: Gerit Hull, Gary Newell, and Andrea Sarmentero Garzon The following are summaries of recent orders issued by FERC in four proceedings in which Jennings Strouss was involved. The proceedings involve rates for transmission service, wholesale power rates, and competition in RTO markets. The Commission denied a request for a transmission rate incentive, granted a complaint that...Issue of Coordination with Affected Syst...
By: Deborah Swanstrom* The issue of coordination with Affected Systems has long been a proverbial “elephant in the room” when generation project developers request interconnection service from a Transmission Provider and the interconnection may impact neighboring systems. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) largely side-stepped the issue when it originally promulgated...FERC Issues Final Rule Requiring RTOs to...
On February 15, 2018, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued Order No. 841, Electric Storage in Markets Operated by Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators. Order No. 841 requires tariff reforms in order to facilitate the participation of electric storage resources in capacity, energy, and ancillary services markets operated by...DOE Requires FERC to Consider Rule Promo...
Posted by Energy Department on Oct 6, 2017 in Andrea I. Sarmentero Garzón, Energy Law Times, FERC, Gerit F. Hull, Joel L. Greene | 0 comments
On September 29, 2017, Energy Secretary Rick Perry directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to initiate a rulemaking that could result in major subsidies for coal fired and nuclear powered electric generators in RTO markets. The Secretary argues that wholesale electricity markets are not properly compensating coal and nuclear units for their contributions to electric...
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