FERC

Is it reasonable that Renewable Portfolio Standards reduce capacity prices? Almost all industry experts would argue the opposite.

A conversation with the CEOs of East Kentucky Power Coop., Ohio's Electric Coop., and Old Dominion Electric Coop. along with Vice Presidents from East Kentucky Power Co-op and North Carolina Electric Membership Corp.

Ten cooperative utilities CEOs joined in one of three PUF roundtable discussions.

As FERC begins its process of adopting the new digital reporting standard, eXtensible Business Reporting Language or XBRL, it opened the opportunity for the states to become active in the process. The data structure design has the potential to dramatically change how state public utility commissions are able to oversee the utilities they regulate.

Best practices for defending against FERC enforcement litigations and investigations are emerging.

This article critiques FERC's rationale for entertaining pancaked complaints; describes as background the FPA bias favoring existing rates; and explains, in light of Emera Maine insights, the inability of pancaked complaints against the same ROE to support either the establishment of new ROEs or the refund of revenues collected under past, superseded ROEs.

Now is not the time to reverse course, to undermine states’ ability to define and regulate retail electric service.

As Ulysses S. Grant said, ‘I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws [or regulations] so effective as their stringent execution.’

Can FERC reliably predict whether, when, renewables and storage will become sufficiently economically, technically feasible to displace fossil fuel generation?

FERC should make staying the course on competition in Order 1000 a priority.