FERC has issued a final rule, Order No. 872, revising the Commission’s regulations governing qualifying small power producers and co-generators (collectively, qualifying facilities or QFs) under the Public Utility Regulatory...more
The agency requests comments on policies regarding state support for zero-carbon-emitting power plants....more
The 5-4 decision temporarily blocks further execution of the EPA’s new plan to cut carbon emissions from existing power plants.
On February 9, the US Supreme Court handed a potentially significant defeat to the Obama...more
FERC proposes to grant itself access to NERC’s Transmission Availability Data System, Generating Availability Data System, and Protection System Misoperations Database.
On September 17, the Federal Energy Regulatory...more
9/22/2015
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Although legal hurdles remain, EPA’s Clean Power Plan envisions sweeping changes to the electricity generation sector designed to mitigate climate change concerns through reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, and it...more
8/6/2015
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