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…

California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) recently proposed to end a moratorium on the approval of tradable renewable-energy credits (TREC) transactions, and raise the cap for large investor-owned utilities to 40%.