This article comes from law firm Foley Lardner LLC (foley.com) FERC’s recent Sky River decision highlights issues for owners of generator lead lines regarding the use of such lines by unaffiliated third parties. Sky River LLC owns a wind project and an interest in an associated lead line to connect to the transmission grid. Other…
FERC (Part II) proposes generator regulation service and frequency response, to the OATT
This article comes from law firm Stoel Rives LLP (www.stoel.com) Among FERC’s (Federal Energy Resource Commission) recent proposals is to add a new rate schedule to the pro forma OATT (Open Access Transmission Tariff) through which transmission providers can recover the costs of holding reserve capacity needed to manage the variability of generation resources serving…
FERC opens rulemaking to favor renewable energy
This article comes from law firm Stoel Rives LLP (www.stoel.com) The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has taken another step to amending transmission practices that unduly discriminate against variable energy resources (VERs) such as wind and solar generators. In November, 2010, FERC first proposed changes to the pro forma Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) and…