These are summaries of orders voted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at its October 16, 2025, public meeting. Links to each order will be provided below once the order is issued. The summaries are produced by FERC’s Office of External Affairs and are intended to provide only a general synopsis of the orders. These summaries are not intended as a substitute for the Commission’s official orders. To determine the specific actions and the Commission’s reasoning, please consult the individual orders when they are posted to FERC’s eLibrary.
E-1 | New York Independent System Operator, Inc., Docket Nos. ER24-1915-002 and ER24-1915-003
ORDER ADDRESSING ARGUMENTS RAISED ON REHEARING, AND SETTING ASIDE PRIOR ORDER, IN PART, AND ON COMPLIANCE
In response to a request for rehearing, the order sustains, in part, and sets aside, in part, the Commission’s April 17, 2025, order, which accepted NYISO’s initial filing made in compliance with Order No. 2023 in part and directed NYISO to submit a further compliance filing. The order also accepts NYISO’s second Order No. 2023 compliance filing, in part, and directs NYISO to submit a further compliance filing.
E-2 | Invenergy Energy Management, LLC, Docket No. 23-29-000
ORDER ON COMPLAINT
The order denies the complaint submitted by Invenergy Energy Management LLC regarding PJM’s practices and procedures applicable to long-term firm point-to-point transmission service requests for service beginning in the near future.
E-3 | Invenergy Transmission LLC v. Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc., Docket No. EL22-83-000
ORDER ON COMPLAINT
The order grants in part and denies in part Invenergy Transmission LLC’s complaint against Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO) alleging that MISO’s tariff is unjust and unreasonable and unduly discriminatory or preferential because it does not provide a transparent and well-defined process to incorporate advanced-stage merchant transmission facilities in the MISO base case analysis undertaken each year as a part of the MISO Transmission Expansion Plan.
E-4 | Cometa Energia, S.A. de C.V. v. California Independent System Operator Corporation, Docket No. EL24-92-002
ORDER ADDRESSING ARGUMENTS RAISED ON REHEARING
In response to a request for rehearing, the order further explains and sustains the Commission’s April 29, 2025, order, which set aside in part the Commission’s June 27, 2024, order denying a complaint filed by Cometa Energia, S.A. de C.V. (Saavi) against the California Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO) alleging that CAISO unlawfully terminated the deliverability status of Saavi’s generating unit.
E-5 | Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, Docket No. ER25-2385-000
ORDER ACCEPTING TARIFF REVISIONS
The order accepts the proposed tariff revisions of Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (DEC), and Duke Energy Progress, LLC (DEP), to account for their newly-formed, wholly-owned procurement subsidiaries, and directs DEC and DEP to make a compliance filing to establish the effective date of the tariff records.
E-6 | Idaho Power Company, Docket No. ER10-2126-011
ORDER ON UPDATED MARKET POWER ANALYSIS, NOTICE OF CHANGE IN STATUS, INSTITUTING SECTION 206 PROCEEDING, AND ESTABLISHING REFUND EFFECTIVE DATE
The order institutes a proceeding under Section 206 of the Federal Power Act to determine whether Idaho Power Company can continue to charge market-based rates in the Idaho Power balancing authority area in light if its failure to pass certain wholesale market share indicative screens and to establish a refund effective date.
E-7 | Beech Ridge Energy, LLC, et al., Docket No. ER10-2137-028, et al.
ORDER ACCEPTING UPDATED MARKET POWER ANALYSIS
The order finds that Beech Ridge Energy LLC and related captioned entities continue to satisfy the Commission’s standards for market-based rate authority and accepts their updated market power analysis.
E-8 | Manitowoc Public Utilities, Docket Nos. ER25-634-001 and ER25-634-000
ORDER APPROVING UNCONTESTED SETTLEMENT
The order approves an uncontested settlement addressing Manitowoc Public Utilities’ proposed rate schedule, which sets forth a monthly System Support Resource payment for costs associated with the operation of the generating unit Lakefront Unit No. 9.
E-9 | Elk Creek Solar, LLC and Elk Creek Solar 2, LLC, Docket No. ER25-3254-000
ORDER GRANTING WAIVER REQUEST
The order grants Elk Creek Solar, LLC’s and Elk Creek Solar 2, LLC’s requests for waiver of certain provisions of Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.’s tariff and two Generator Interconnection Agreements, to allow for an extension of the commercial operation deadlines for its generating facility.
E-10 | Evergreen Wind Power II, LLC, Docket No. ER25-3031-000
ORDER DENYING WAIVER REQUEST
The order denies Evergreen Wind Power II, LLC’s (Evergreen) request for waiver of sections 3.2.1.3, 3.4.1, and 5.1.1.3 of the ISO New England Inc. (ISO-NE) Large Generator Interconnection Procedures and sections III.13.1.1.2, III.13.1.1.2.1(a), and III.13.1.1.2.3A of the ISO-NE Transmission, Markets and Services Tariff to allow Evergreen to seek qualification of its wind generating facility’s capacity for participation in the ISO-NE 2025 Interim Reconfiguration Auction, through participation in the Transitional Capacity Network Resource Group Study.
E-11 | Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Docket No. ER20-2878-018, et al.
ORDER ON INITIAL DECISION
The order addresses exceptions to an initial decision relating to the definitions for Upgrades and Direct Assignment Facilities under Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s proposed third Wholesale Distribution Tariff.
G-1 | Standards for Business Practices of Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines, Docket No. RM96-1-044
NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING
The notice of proposed rulemaking proposes to amend the Commission’s regulations to incorporate by reference certain modifications to the latest version (Version 4.0) of Standards for Business Practices of Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines adopted by the Wholesale Gas Quadrant (WGQ) of the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB). NAESB’s revisions in Version 4.0 of the standards streamline the process for accessing publicly available gas-electric coordination data during extreme cold weather or emergency events.
G-2 | Baltimore Gas and Electric Company & Washington Gas Light Company v. Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC, Docket No. RP25-740-000
ORDER ON COMPLAINT
The order partly grants the Complaint (finding that Columbia misapplied the Commission’s force majeure policy and must recalculate reservation charge credits) and partly denies the Complaint (denying the claim of constructive abandonment, and declining jurisdiction on Complainants’ non-tariff damage claims).
H-1 | Eagle Crest Energy Company, Project No. 13123-031
ORDER AMENDING LICENSE
The order approves Eagle Crest Energy Company’s request to amend its license for the Eagle Mountain Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Project, to be located in Riverside County, California, near the town of Desert Center, to reroute the project’s primary transmission line and revise the project boundary.
C-1 | Transwestern Pipeline Company, LLC, Docket No. CP25-37-000
ORDER ISSUING CERTIFICATE
The order issues Transwestern Pipeline Company, LLC (Transwestern) a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct, operate, and maintain a new compressor station in Chaves County, New Mexico. The project is designed to provide up to 80,000 Dth/d of incremental firm transportation service, from Transwestern’s West Texas Lateral Central Zone to Transwestern’s Panhandle Lateral.
C-2 | NGO Transmission, Inc., Docket No. CP25-11-001
ORDER ADDRESSING ARGUMENTS RAISED ON REHEARING
In response to a request for rehearing, the order further explains and sustains the Commission’s April 24, 2025 order, which denied NGO Transmission, Inc.’s application to abandon certain natural gas pipeline and storage facilities in Central Ohio.
C-3 | Rover Pipeline, LLC, Docket No. CP25-535-000
ORDER ISSUING CERTIFICATE AUTHORIZING CERTAIN ACTIVITIES
The Commission issued to Rover Pipeline LLC a blanket under Subpart F of Part 157 of the Commission’s regulations. The Commission denied Rover’s request for a blanket certificate during its 2017 original certificate proceeding, indicating that Rover would reapply for a blanket after 18 months of operations elapsed. After over seven years of operation and nine additional case-specific certificate proceedings that would have been eligible under the blanket program, Rover requested a blanket certificate. The order finds that Rover met the requirements to receive a blanket certificate. The certificate provides Rover an administratively efficient means to authorize a class of projects without case-specific review, which increases flexibility and reduces regulatory burden, allowing Rover to build additional capacity and increase operational flexibility while maintaining the landowner and environmental protections inherent in the Commissions blanket certificate program.