U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the department is ready to use its authority under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act to dispatch backup generation from large customers if needed ahead of a major winter storm.

U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced a bill that would exempt large loads served on islanded systems from federal economic regulations for the electric industry.

DOE is exceeding its authority by using Federal Power Act Section 202(c) to keep the J.H. Campbell coal plant in Michigan running under several consecutive “emergency” orders, opponents argued in recent court filings with the D.C. Circuit.

Many comments on the Department of Energy’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to FERC on large load interconnections warned against going too far into jurisdictional issues.

Not surprisingly, state regulators quickly made their concerns known about DOE's request for a new FERC rulemaking proceeding in order to “ensure efficient, timely and non-discriminatory load interconnections” for large loads, says columnist Peter Kelly-Detwiler.

The Organization of MISO States is warning NERC that its possible new resource adequacy standard would tread on states’ planning authority.

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.

Columnist Steve Huntoon discusses the "apparently unintended irony" in the Trump administration's latest executive order on FERC.

ERCOT, Oncor and the Texas PUC asked FERC to deny a petition from Puerto Rican company Pluvia to bring the territory under the commission’s jurisdiction.

Pluvia, a firm based in Puerto Rico, has asked FERC to find that its project of shipping energy from the mainland to the island via batteries on cargo ships could trigger commission jurisdiction.