Bones

FERC Set to Flesh Out Electric Refund Order This Week

FERC this week will put some meat on the bones of an electric order it issued late last year proposing to revise all existing market-based rate tariffs and authorizations in order to prohibit anti-competitive behavior or the exercise of market power, FERC Chairman Pat Wood told reporters last Wednesday after appearing at a breakfast meeting sponsored by the Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA). The order has come under criticism from some quarters as being ambiguous and placing an open-ended refund condition on sellers of power.

April 22, 2002

Bingaman Decries GOP Push for Bare-Bones Senate Energy Bill

Despite cries by Republican senators last week for a stripped-down energy bill in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said he remains undeterred in his drive to vote out a “balanced and comprehensive” energy bill during this session.

October 1, 2001

FERC’s Larcamp on Convergence

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has been putting somemeat on the bones of its FERC First restructuring efforts,following up the announcement of a new director, with that of a newdeputy director of the merged Office of Markets, Tariffs and Rates(OMTR) and a new Office of Energy Projects (OEP).

June 24, 1999