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Does FERC's Authority to Delegate Functions to Staff Survive the Loss of an Agency Quorum?

On May 25th, the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources will hold hearings on President Trump's nominations to fill two commissioner vacancies on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). If confirmed, the...more

DC Circuit Case May Test Continuing Validity of FERC Delegations of Authority to Agency Staff Once Its Quorum Disappeared

On February 7 and March 7, 2017, we wrote about how the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is operating without a legal quorum of three members and how the lack of a quorum might affect the validity of FERC staff...more

Challenge Issued to Legality of FERC's Delegation Order

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) February 3, 2017 "delegation order" that was issued on the last day it had a quorum was the topic of a recent alert. The order, as we noted, aimed to preserve and expand the...more

No Quorum at FERC may Affect Ability to Consummate Dispositions of Jurisdictional Assets and Issuances of Debt

At the close of business on Friday, February 3, 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) lost its legal quorum of three members when its former Chair, Norman Bay, resigned his post as a FERC Commissioner. Earlier...more

Where Do FERC Enforcement Targets Go to Get Their Day in Court?

Two Federal District Court Opinions Highlight Differences Between Natural Gas Act and Federal Power Act Investigations - Two weeks ago, a federal judge in Texas rejected arguments that targets of FERC investigations...more

FERC as Prosecutor, Judge and Jury?

May the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) initiate an enforcement investigation against a company for manipulating natural gas markets, order the company to show cause why it shouldn’t be fined and then decide the...more

DC Circuit Joins 7th Circuit in Holding Mobile-Sierra Contract Protection Inapplicable to Transmission Owner Rights of First...

Several months ago, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) order overriding contracts between the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) and incumbent utilities...more

FERC Rules that PURPA Purchase Obligation Trumps Post-PURPA Requirements Contracts

Last year, responding to a petition for declaratory order by a rural electric distribution cooperative (Delta-Montrose), FERC declared that, notwithstanding provisions in Delta-Montrose's agreement to purchase 95 percent of...more

Supreme Court Hands FERC Win on Authority Over Capacity Markets

With its decision on Tuesday, April 20 in Hughes v. Talen Energy Marketing, the Supreme Court issued its second significant holding of the year on the reach of federal authority over interstate wholesale sales markets. The...more

Seventh Circuit Upholds FERC's Authority to Abrogate Transmission Owner Rights of First Refusal

Does FERC have authority to override contracts between a regional transmission organization (RTO) and incumbent utilities giving the latter rights of first refusal (ROFR) to build new regional transmission facilities? It...more

DC Circuit Overturns FERC Rule Authorizing Payments For Demand Response Services

In a 2-1 decision with potentially broad ramifications for power markets, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has overturned the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s rule requiring ISO and RTOs to pay electricity...more

5/26/2014  /  Demand Response , Electricity , FERC
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