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.
Several stakeholders condemn MISO’s bid to reconfigure its resource adequacy design into seasonal auctions with availability-based resource accreditations.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce is questioning the Tennessee Valley Authority over its rates and clean energy goals.
DOE announced the launch of the Building a Better Grid Initiative, aimed at building out long-distance, high-voltage transmission lines.
A federal judge has scheduled a hearing next month to settle a dispute between Ameren and the DOJ over the closure of a St. Louis-area coal plant.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agreed that the nation’s hydropower is undervalued in power markets and under-incentivized in federal policymaking.
Federal prosecutors said they would not ask for an extension of PG&E's probation time based on California criminal charges.
FERC denied a motion from the estate one of the owners of GreenHat Energy for the commission to drop its enforcement action.
MISO has made another attempt to coax more time from FERC so it can calculate refunds to transmission customers relating to the commission’s return on equity.
While the Build Back Better Act was knocked off the front pages by the resurgence of COVID-19, the bill will likely reclaim attention this month.
Reversing FERC, the D.C. Circuit ruled that developers of the abandoned PATH transmission line must refund $6 million spent to influence public officials.
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