FERC

The final rule directs the North American Electric Reliability Corporation to develop a suite of new or modified reliability standards.

Reliability ‘catastrophe’ looms as dispatchable resources retire, FERC commissioner warns

FERC has allowed the “distortion of price signals” and permitted market incentives to be “warped, interfering with price formation and jeopardizing resource adequacy.”

Two years after Winter Storm Uri, FERC approves new cold weather rules

The rules now require generator owners to implement freeze protection measures.

Pat Wood on Texas grid reform and George W. Bush’s aha moment on renewables

On Episode 1 of the Texas Power Podcast, host Doug Lewin is joined by Pat Wood, former chairman of both the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Public Utility Commission of Texas. He helped deliver former Texas Gov. George W. Bush’s deregulation agenda in the 1990s.

FERC will look into the use of ratepayer funds for utility trade group dues

The NOI was issued following a petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity which said the utility practice violates First Amendment protections.