Fairness

FERC’s Wood Urges Suppliers to Keep Eye on State Solicitation Processes

Power suppliers should keep their eye on the “transparency and fairness” of state-level power solicitation processes in the near term, FERC Chairman Patrick Wood last Tuesday told a gathering of power supply officials at the Electric Power Supply Association’s (EPSA) fall membership meeting.

November 15, 2004

OCC Nearing Decision on Gathering Rulemaking

As expected, there still is nearly complete disagreement amongOklahoma gatherers and producers over the fairness of current ratesand service treatment. Responses to a recent Oklahoma CorporationCommission (OCC) questionnaire reveal that nearly half of producerrespondents felt similarly situated producers on the same gatheringsystem received higher or lower prices than they received. Also,79% said this was unduly discriminatory.

November 16, 1998