Michael Brooks

FERC approved Dairyland Power Cooperative’s transmission rate incentives request for its Wilmarth-North Rochester-Tremval project investment.

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FERC Chair Richard Glick said he will leave the commission when Congress adjourns, ending five years as a federal energy regulator.

NERC’s Standards Committee appointed additional or supplemental members to three of the ERO’s 19 ongoing standards development projects’ drafting teams.

FERC’s members discussed New England’s winter fuel security problems and once again highlighted the commission’s philosophical divide along party lines.

PJM and its Monitor sparred at two different committee meetings as they tried to win stakeholder support for their proposals on black start resources.

FERC rejected PJM’s plan to change its handling of synchronized reserve events, saying it would likely result in higher prices and over-procurement.

The battle over MISO transmission owners’ return on equity continued with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacating FERC’s order setting the rate at 10.02%.

FERC proposed allowing RTOs to share credit information about market participants, fulfilling a request the grid operators made at a 2021 technical conference.

MISO’s board may be coming around to the idea of using a sloped demand curve to price capacity as the RTO confronts the possibility of resource shortages.