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FERC’s Enforcement in Demand Response Case a Lesson for Utilities

For energy consumers that have flexibility to modify their energy use in response to direction from a utility or the relevant transmission operator (i.e., to reduce load by changing or…


FERC, NERC Reveal Disturbing Details from Winter Storm Elliott Inquiry

Incremental unplanned generation outages triggered during Winter Storm Elliott spiked to 90.5 GW—significantly more than the 61.8 GW during Winter Storm Uri in 2021—representing 13% of the U.S. portion of…


FERC's Queue Reform an Improvement, but Devil Is in the Details

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on July 28 issued a landmark order that reforms the generator interconnection process. The order is in response to a clear need for nationwide…


FERC Adopts ‘Historic’ Reforms to Ease Nationwide Generation Interconnection Backlog

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved key transmission reforms aimed at clearing a staggering backlog of more than 10,000 generation and storage projects—more than 2,000 GW—stalled in interconnection…


Beware Unbridled Enthusiasm—Recent FERC Settlements Hold Lessons for Aggregators
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In more than one RTO market, aggregators may find themselves in the position of making capacity offers for future delivery periods based on projections of how much aggregated capability they…