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Order 888's primary objective was to establish and promote competition in the generation market, by ensuring fair access and market treatment of transmission customers. FERC outlined six points to accomplish this goal: Require all jurisdictional utilities (within the United States) to file an open-access transmission tariff (OATT)
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source. [2]The Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act would amend the Natural Gas Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to approve or deny a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a prefiled project within 12 months after receiving a complete ...
FERC also reviews proposals to build interstate natural gas pipelines, natural gas storage projects, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, in addition to licensing non-federal hydropower projects. FERC was created by the U.S. Congress in 1977 in the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis.
According to the DOE, the NIETC permit process should not disrupt the existing activities of state authorities, and FERC will investigate allegations that an applicant has acted in bad faith in state proceedings. When a specific route is chosen for a project, FERC will conduct an environmental impact statement (EIS) prior to groundbreaking. The ...
In September 2019, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced its intention to update certain provisions of the PURPA law, in a process known as a “notice of proposed rulemaking” (NOPR). One of the original intentions of PURPA was to try to break the U.S.'s dependence on fossil fuels during the 1970s energy crisis. To ...
A notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) is a public notice that is issued by law when a U.S. federal agency wishes to add, remove, or change a rule or regulation as part of the rulemaking process. The notice is an important part of US administrative law, which facilitates government by typically creating a process of taking of public comment.
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The earliest NERC Tag application was based on a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, and was introduced in 1997.The form was usually completed by the power marketers or schedulers, by defining the date and time of the transaction, the physical path of the energy schedule from its point of generation to point of consumption, the financial path (buying/selling chain) of the energy schedule, the hourly ...