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cleveland.com
March 31, 2018
And he noted that PJM will do a formal analysis of the grid impact of the planned closings of the FirstEnergy reactors in the next 30 days, using an analytical procedure approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. If the analysis determines that the shutdowns would destabilize the grid, PJM canÃâà...
Crain's Detroit Business
March 31, 2018
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has said cybersecurity standards are lacking in the nation's electricity distribution system. Several states, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia and Texas, have already taken similar steps. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security last October issued aÃâà...
E&E News
March 31, 2018
The Department of Energy political appointee who oversaw a high-profile grid study is heading to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, according to multiple sources familiar with the move. Travis Fisher. Photo credit: Fisher/LinkedIn. Travis Fisher. Fisher/LinkedIn. Travis Fisher, who left his DOE postÃâà...
cleveland.com
March 30, 2018
The previous appeal to the DOE had DOE Secretary Rick Perry asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to regard the old plants as crucial because, unlike the ultra efficient gas turbines, the traditional coal-fired power plants store coal on-site while the nuclear plants need to be refueled every 18Ãâà...
StateImpact Pennsylvania
March 28, 2018
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said on March 15 that it won't be so flexible with “untimely” interventions as it has been in the past. It was responding to Delaware Riverkeeper Network which filed its opposition to a pipeline project at Birdsboro, Pa., five weeks after the deadline. Three of the fiveÃâà...
The Spokesman-Review
March 25, 2018
Pressure to send the savings back to electricity, gas and water customers regulated at the state level escalated recently after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission demanded federally regulated utilities report back to them about the potential tax windfall and returning the money to customers.
Utility Dive
March 24, 2018
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is among the targets of alleged Iranian hackers indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on Friday. Nine members of an Iran-based company stole data from hundreds of universities and dozens of companies around the world, DOJ said, acting in many cases onÃâà...
The Star Democrat
March 17, 2018
Ben Grumbles, who heads the department, said the state has added almost two dozen environmental conditions, many of which "go above and beyond" what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission would typically include. "The bottom line is that this pipeline willÃâà...
OilPrice.com
March 16, 2018
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has outlined the steps it would take to make sure that the clients of utilities and oil and gas pipeline operators don't bear any financial burden from the sweeping tax reform that President Trump signed into law in December. The reform, among other things,Ãâà...
Washington Examiner
March 8, 2018
030818 FERC Resilience Action pic Chairman Kevin McIntyre suggested the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission would like to more fairly value the resilience attributes that power plants provide to the grid, based on the energy source they use. (Flickr)Ãâà...
E&E News
March 8, 2018
That gives the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission time to finish its work on a climate review the D.C. Circuit ordered last year. Yesterday's decision is a major blow to environmentalists whose legal challenge to Sabal Trail was set to make history by shutting down a major gas pipeline for climateÃâà...
Durango Telegraph
March 8, 2018
The motion essentially backs a 2016 decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that gives Delta-Montrose the ability to get more of its energy locally. “We're here to support the energy producers in our community,” Monique DiGiorgio, executive director for Local First, said. “We want renewableÃâà...
The Herald
March 8, 2018
A federal appeals court has denied Duke Energy's bid for a longer federal license to manage the Catawba River, the source of energy, water and recreation for the Charlotte region. The license impacts recreation areas, drought management, land conservation, preservation of historic sites and more.
Law360
March 8, 2018
the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied rehearing and rehearing en banc (before the full court) of petitions for rehearing filed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and jointly by Duke Energy Florida, Florida Power & Light Co., Florida Southeast ConnectionÃâà...
mySanAntonio.com
March 8, 2018
Dan Brouillette, deputy secretary of energy nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump, from left, Neil Chatterjee and Robert Powelson, nominees to be a members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for Trump, answer questions while standing during a Senate Energy and NaturalÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 8, 2018
Members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission are hinting that the independent government agency likely will take some type of action to better value the resilience that certain power plants provide to the electric grid, based on what grid operators report this week. The nation's federally overseenÃâà...
Utility Dive
March 6, 2018
A coalition of groups representing utilities, renewable energy providers and environmentalists sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday outlining principles for wholesale electricity market reforms. The groups outlined five priorities for market reform, saying policies should beÃâà...
Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
March 4, 2018
The Alaska LNG Project appears to have just blown off Mat-Su as a pipeline terminal and site for its big liquefied natural gas plant. In its analysis the LNG planners mistakenly looked at the wrong site – Point MacKenzie instead of Port MacKenzie. The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC,Ãâà...
FederalNewsRadio.com
March 2, 2018
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is taking a bit of a different approach to identifying its high value data assets. Unlike many agencies which parsed their data sets based on high value, medium value and low value, FERC is taking a more holistic approach from birth to death. Mittal Desai, theÃâà...
Mondaq News Alerts
March 2, 2018
In an action that industry observers have hailed as opening the floodgates for electric energy storage and sounding the death knell for peaking power plants across the nation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued a Final Rule requiring every Regional Transmission OrganizationÃâà...
The National Law Review
February 22, 2018
Jason Allen is a partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he is a member and co-chair of the Energy Industry Team. He is a member of the Finance & Financial Institutions, Transactional & Securities, and Private Equity & Venture Capital Practices. Mr. Allen's practice focuses in theÃâà...
Energy Manager Today
February 20, 2018
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued an order allowing the participation of electric storage resources in the capacity, energy, and ancillary services markets operated by regional transmission organizations and independent system operators. FERC's vote to open US wholesale energyÃâà...
Environmental Defense Fund
February 15, 2018
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today issued an order requiring that grid operators allow energy storage to participate in wholesale markets, where electricity is bought and sold. The order, however, did not provide a similar pathway to participation for distributed energy resources.
Washington Examiner
February 5, 2018
Major pipeline companies are getting heartburn from President Trump's corporate tax cuts, as scores of trade groups and states pressure federal energy regulators to force the industry to cut their rates. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is receiving a flood of petitions from consumer energyÃâà...
Lynchburg News and Advance
February 2, 2018
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has opened an investigation into the operation of the Reusens hydroelectric plant on the James River, less than a year after New Jersey-based Eagle Creek Renewable Energy bought the plant. According to a Jan. 25 letter from FERC's Division of HydropowerÃâà...
SCOTUSblog (blog)
January 31, 2018
Total Gas & Power North America, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Pending petition. Docket No. Op. Below, Argument, Opinion, Vote, Author, Term. 17-975 Ãâ÷ 5th Cir. TBD, TBD, TBD, TBD, TBD. Issue: Whether forcing an entity to defend claims for civil liability and penalties in an ultra vires agency proceeding,Ãâà...
Journal Record
December 31, 1999
On March 15, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced that master limited partnerships (MLPs) would no longer be allowed to charge an income tax allowance in their cost of service rates. While the effect of this new policy is significant for some midstream companies, the impact appearsÃâà...
Reading Eagle
December 31, 1999
A Berks County environmental group took issue with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval Thursday of the DTE Midstream Appalachia pipeline in Birdsboro. Karen Feridun, a member of Berks Gas Truth, charged that FERC had ignored contamination at the site and disregarded the powerÃâà...
cleveland.com
December 31, 1999
Grid manager PJM Interconnection wants the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to order the pipelines and other grid managers like itself across the nation to share and coordinate information in real time, something that apparently has not been happening. The request was part of a formal responseÃâà...
Electric Light & Power
December 31, 1999
The following statement from FERC chair Kevin J. McIntyre was posted to the FERC website. “For some months now I have received inquiries from friends and colleagues, energy industry contacts and others regarding my health. I very much appreciate the expressions of concern and support that I haveÃâà...
mySanAntonio.com
December 31, 1999
Last month, the independent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shot down a sweeping proposal from Energy Secretary Rick Perry. By rejecting the proposal, which would have led to dangerous levels of air pollution, FERC helped secure the health of thousands of Americans. Perry's proposed GridÃâà...
