Item E-2: Commissioner Clements Concurrence Regarding Transmission System Planning Performance Requirements for Extreme Weather
… elevated risk of an energy emergency due to the increased demand for electricity driven by above average temperatures combined with a … mechanisms to address the impact of extreme weather events on the electricity grid. Across geographies, regulatory regimes, regional … meteorological projections and drought’s anticipated impacts on the electricity system compel the development of drought benchmark events …
Reliability Explainer
… (FERC) is a government agency that oversees the interconnected electricity grid in the United States. FERC’s reliability jurisdiction … In contrast, FERC has jurisdiction over the transmission of electricity in interstate commerce, typically along lines connected to … is the provision of an adequate , secure, and stable flow of electricity as consumers may need it. In other words, when you flip the …
Commissioner James Danly Dissent Regarding TransAlta Energy Marketing (U.S.) Inc.
… in this case is whether the Commission can abrogate a contract to sell electricity pursuant to market-based rate authority when the contract … so ordering, the majority does nothing to remedy California’s ongoing electricity crisis except to perpetuate contract uncertainty and cause … contract, the offer , which in this case was that TransAlta would sell electricity to the buyer at a premium above the index price. There is …
Item E-3: Commissioner James Danly Dissent Regarding Broadview Solar, LLC
… in this instance, output could be read to refer to the raw quantity of electricity generated. But when applied to the facility as a whole, as … the Commission to promulgate rules obligating utilities to purchase electricity from QFs (without distinguishing between small power … MW to require utilities to interconnect with them and purchase their electricity at avoided cost rates. There is no logical reason why …
FERC’s Grid Work Continues Amid Order No. 2023 Compliance
… more efficiently is key to more reliable, resilient, and affordable electricity for everyone,” Phillips says. He often notes that many … operation of the grid and to ensure power supply and meet growing electricity demand. Order No. 1977 updates how FERC will implement the limited authority Congress gave it to site electricity transmission lines. And on November 1, 2024, FERC will …
Item E-2: Commissioner Richard Glick Dissent in Part Regarding Qualifying Facility Rates and Requirements
… utilities; and (3) to ensure that the resulting rates paid by electricity customers remain just and reasonable, in the public … provided a way for QFs whose principal business was not generating electricity, such as industrial cogeneration facilities, to monetize their excess electricity generation. The contract option, by contrast, provided QFs …
Staff Presentation on Price Index Policy Statement and Safe Harbor Price Index NOPR (PL20-3-000, RM20-7-000)
… as they are used to price billions of dollars of natural gas and electricity transactions annually in both the physical and financial … indices as benchmarks when reviewing the prudence of natural gas or electricity purchases. Finally, many natural gas financial derivative … Statement , to explain what the Commission expects of natural gas and electricity price indices. The following year it issued its Price Index …
June 2022 Commission Meeting: Opening Remarks of Commissioner Allison Clements
… an important piece of the puzzle, the effort to facilitate a reliable electricity system as the resource mix changes is more complicated. The … actions today that contribute to this broader need to update the electricity system’s rules to accommodate current realities and ensure … assumptions. For example, while we propose more flexibility for electricity storage and hybrid facilities to be studied based on …
FERC Approves Natural Gas Price Indices Updates
… price indices are used to price billions of dollars of natural gas and electricity transactions annually in both the physical and financial … is critical to the efficient functioning of both natural gas and electricity markets. Additionally, natural gas price indices are often used to verify electricity supply offers in RTO/ISO markets from gas-fired generators …
AR-7 Gas Turbine Generating Plants
… fuel supplied the utility by the customer for use in the production of electricity by the utility. What is the proper accounting for this … steam which is sold, is incidental to the main function of producing electricity by the turbine generator and, therefore, is a by-product of … of such equipment, whether stemming from the production and sale of electricity or of heat or steam, in the appropriate electric operations …