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.
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FERC Rejects Kentucky Complaint Against AEP’s Tx Cost Allocation
FERC rejected a complaint from the Kentucky PSC against AEP, finding the utility holding company's practice of spreading supplemental projects around its PJM utilities is still just and reasonable.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Duke Paper Lays out How FERC Can Make Flexibility for Large Loads Reality
FERC can make large load flexibility a reality through the implementation of the Department of Energy’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on large load interconnections, according to a new Nicholas Institute policy paper.
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FERC Accepts 2026 ERO Budgets, Approves Waiver
FERC approved the ERO's business plans and budgets, along with a waiver to NERC's rules around use of penalty funds.
PacifiCorp
NERC Files IBR Standards with FERC
NERC has filed five reliability standards to FERC, comprising the second of three sets of standards for inverter-based resources ordered by the commission.
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Utilities in SERC, RF to Pay $185K in Penalties
FERC approved settlements with three utilities in the footprints of SERC Reliability and ReliabilityFirst, totaling $185,000 in penalties.
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FERC Approves $1.25M SERC-Entergy Settlement
SERC Reliability claimed Entergy staff ignored multiple high-priority warnings, one of which led to a loss of load for several customers, in determining the $1.25 million penalty.
CAISO
FERC Approves Incentives, Tariff for SWIP-North
FERC granted Great Basin Transmission’s request for incentives and a transmission owner tariff for its SWIP-North line – rejecting arguments that the project no longer makes sense with the cancellation of the Lava Ridge wind farm. 
PJM
PJM Asks FERC to Deny Demand Response Metering Data Complaint
PJM told FERC that a complaint seeking to use statistics to estimate customers’ demand response when accessing meter data is not practical.
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FERC CIP Audits Find Ongoing Cloud Issues
FERC staff warned in a report that third-party cloud services pose an ongoing risk to the security of the electric grid.
NOVVA Data Centers
FERC Rejects Tri-State’s ‘High Impact Load Tariff’ Aimed at Data Centers
FERC rejected Tri-State Generation and Transmission’s proposed tariff to designed to manage the projected massive growth in data center load confronting its Mountain West member utilities over the next decade.

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