On June 4, 2008, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation made its first public announcement of its Notices of Penalty when it filed at FERC the first batch of proposed penalties for reliability standard violations. Most Notices of Penalty filed with FERC were for a zero penalty amount, however, Baltimore Gas & Electric and MidAmerican […]
In the first test of the “backstop” transmission siting authority given to FERC in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005), Southern California Edison (SCE) recently discussed with FERC staff the siting of a 230-mile, 500 kV transmission line from the Palo Verde nuclear plant near Phoenix, Arizona to Devers, California, near Palm Springs […]
FERC continues to tweak its rules regarding mergers and acquisitions under section 203 of the Federal Power Act (FPA), issuing new regulations that impose restrictions on affiliate transactions between certain public utilities and their unregulated affiliates. FERC explained that it intends to fill a perceived regulatory gap in its current affiliate sales rules, and stated […]