FERC's call for regional PUCs will force state regulators to declare their allegiance.
Branko Terzic
FERC's call for regional PUCs will force state regulators to declare their allegiance.
How will regulators re-engineer restructuring? That was the theme of the seventh annual convention of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Commissioners (MARUC). But while the theme may have been the re-engineering of restructuring, other regulators felt more inclined to discuss the "re-regulating of restructuring."
Pennsylvania loses faith in FERC, looks for help from the Justice department.
Philip S. Cross
Pennsylvania loses faith in FERC, looks for help from the Justice department.
"A well functioning market on an average day works better than we regulators can do on our best day." Perhaps this quote, attributed to Pat Wood, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), best captures the prevailing view among transmission officials in the Northeast. But the feeling out West is decidedly different. So is the mood among state utility regulators.
And where the trouble spots lie in FERC's grid plan.
See Affidavit of William H. Dunn, Jr., on behalf of the Montana Consumer Counsel, FERC Docket No. RT01-35, filed 5/29/02
And where the trouble spots lie in FERC's grid plan.
The mood appeared calm on June 26 in Washington, D.C., at the regular bi-weekly meeting of the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Key officials from various regional transmission organizations (RTOs) had gathered before chairman Pat Wood and the other commissioners to brief them on progress over the past year in reforming wholesale electric markets, and on what the FERC might expect in the summer at hand.
FERC's plan to expand into energy market-monitoring faces many challenges.
David O. Jermain
Enron's fall finds FERC toying with cost-based rates. But let's temper the nostalgia.
AEP Power Marketing Inc., 97 FERC ¶61,219,
Making sense of RTO Week, the mediation talks, and FERC's promised new rulemaking.
Bruce W. Radford
Making sense of RTO Week, the mediation talks, and FERC's promised new rulemaking.
Dynegy's senior vice president Peter Esposito didn't think much about the celebrated mediation talks on forming a single, unified transmission grid for the Northeast U.S.
Off Peak
November 15, 2001
Markets Behaving Badly
To understand 'gaming,' be a gamer.
FERC Staff Member: What sort of behavior is wrong?
Fortnightly
S. A. Van Vactor and F. H. Pickel
Docket No. EL01-47-000, Mar. 14, 2001 (F.E.R.C.).-L.A.B
FERC Docket No. EL01-38-000, filed Feb. 14, 2001
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