FERC & Federal
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is an independent regulatory agency that oversees the transmission of electricity, natural gas and oil in interstate commerce, as well as regulating hydroelectric dams and natural gas facilities.
February’s Texas outages signal a need for an examination of the electric grid, members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee heard.
Electric distribution systems carrying energy to end consumers are vulnerable to cyberattacks, but a new report says these risks are “not fully” addressed.
FERC threw out a complaint by activist group CGNP against that sought to stop the closure of PG&E’s Diablo Canyon Power Plant.
FERC approved revisions to three of NERC’s critical infrastructure protection reliability standards, submitted under Project 2019-03.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee requested an update from heads of several federal agencies on their response to last year’s SolarWinds cyberattack.
The Senate ENR Committee pressed NERC CEO Jim Robb and PJM CEO Manu Asthana for an explanation of the February winter storm and resulting outages in Texas.
GAO urged FERC and the DOE to develop strategies for responding to increasing stresses on the electric grid from climate change.
More than half of the U.S. coal fleet could be retired by 2025 to reduce emissions and generating costs, with no harm to reliability, according to RMI.
NERC and the regional entities pushed back on FERC’s proposal to shorten the time between the organization’s performance assessments from 5 years to 3.
FERC has accepted a settlement between WECC and NorthWestern Energy for violations of NERC reliability standards, under which the utility will pay $205,000.
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