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Electric - Industry Activities
Electric Competition
National policy for many years has been, and continues to be, to foster competition in wholesale power markets. The Commission’s core responsibility is to “guard the consumer from exploitation by non-competitive electric power companies.” The Commission has always used the following two general approaches to meet this responsibility 1) Regulation and 2) Competition. Learn what the Commission is doing to foster competition.
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Transmission Investment
The Commission has established rules to bolster investment in the nation’s transmission infrastructure, and to promote electric power reliability and lower costs for consumers, by reducing transmission congestion. The rule identifies specific incentives the Commission would allow based on a case-by-case analysis of individual transmission proposals. Read More
Demand Response
Effective demand response can help reduce electric price volatility, mitigate generation market power, and enhance reliability. As required by the Section 1252(e)(3) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) FERC is now required to report annually on Demand Response and Advanced Metering. Read More
Energy Innovations
There is heightened interest in distributed generation, renewable energy issues, greenhouse gas emissions policies, and advanced technologies. The Commission has therefore formed a new group within its Office of Energy Market Regulation, the Energy Innovations Sector, to study these issues and coordinate policy with regard to jurisdictional transmission and wholesale energy markets. Read More. Read More
Electric Reliability
The Commission has inaugurated Docket No. RM04-2-000 in the wake
of the August 14, 2003, regional blackout and Congressional consideration
of power-grid reliability legislation. Read
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RTO/ISO
The Commission would like to advance the formation of Regional Transmission
Organizations (RTOs). The regulations would require that each public
utility that owns, operates, or controls facilities for the transmission
of electric energy in interstate commerce make certain filings with
respect to forming and participating in an RTO. Read
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Power Blackout
This page contains relevant statements by the Commission on the root causes of the blackout that occurred on August 14-15, 2003, the progress of the investigation, and other related topics. Read More
Addressing the 2000–2001 Western Energy Crisis
The Commission is focusing on energy markets, transactions and market
behavior in the Western Region of the United States. Read
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Generator Interconnection
The Commission is facilitating a working group with various interests
in the electric industry in an attempt to develop standardized interconnection
agreement and procedures that would provide interconnection service.
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Joint Boards
The Commission is holding joint boards on a regional basis to study the issue of security constrained economic dispatch for the various market regions, to consider issues relevant to what constitutes "security constrained economic dispatch" and how such a mode of operating affects or enhances the reliability and affordability of service, and to make recommendations to the Commission. The Commission will submit a report to Congress regarding the recommendations of the joint boards on or before August 7, 2006. Read More
Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) Reform
The Commission proposes to remedy undue discrimination by increasing the clarity and transparency in the rules applicable to planning and use of the transmission system, and to address ambiguities and the lack of sufficient detail in several important areas of the pro forma OATT. Read More
Transmission Line Siting
The Energy Policy Act provides for federal backstop siting authority of certain electric transmission facilities in order to increase transmission capacity and maintain system reliability. Upon the designation by the Secretary of the Department of Energy of national interest electric transmission corridors experiencing electric transmission capacity constraints or congestion that adversely affects consumers, the Commission may issue permits to construct or modify electric transmission facilities if the Commission finds certain facts.
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