Northwest Pipeline has flouted FERC’s turn-back policy by imposing an “unreasonable and fundamentally defective” turn-back fee requirement that blocked shippers from shedding more than 200,000 Dth/d of unused and unwanted pipeline transportation capacity on its system, complained two Duke Energy subsidiaries.
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Northwest Pipeline Accused of Assessing ‘Unreasonable’ Shipper Fee to Turn Back Capacity
Northwest Pipeline has flouted FERC’s turn-back policy by imposing an “unreasonable and fundamentally defective” turn-back fee requirement that blocked shippers from shedding more than 200,000 Dth/d of unused and unwanted pipeline transportation capacity on its system, complained two Duke Energy subsidiaries.
FERC’s Brownell: Regulators Must Get ‘Bad Guys,’ But Not Overreact
Regulators need to weed out the “bad guys” who flouted the laws and rules of the energy markets, but the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and its sister agencies must resist the urge to overreact by increasing their control of the industry, FERC Commissioner Nora M. Brownell told industry analysts and energy executives last Thursday.
FERC’s Brownell: Regulators Must Get ‘Bad Guys,’ But Not Overreact
Regulators need to weed out the “bad guys” who flouted the laws and rules of the energy markets, but the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and its sister agencies also must resist the urge to overreact by increasing their control of the industry, FERC Commissioner Nora M. Brownell told industry analysts and energy executives Thursday.