On October 8, 2009, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”) approved a Stipulation and Consent Agreement (the “Agreement”) between the Office of Enforcement, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (“NERC”), and Florida Power and Light Company (“FPL”).  Under the Agreement, FPL agreed to pay a $25 million civil penalty to resolve an investigation into whether FPL violated Reliability Standards associated with a Florida blackout on February 26, 2008. [Read more →]

On Thursday, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources approved the nomination of John R. Norris as Commissioner of FERC.  [Read more →]

On October 2, 2009, FERC conditionally approved ISO New England Inc.’s (“ISO-NE”) Reliability Commitment Mitigation rules as applied to resources used to maintain electric reliability.  [Read more →]

On September 30, 2009, the former Chairman of FERC spoke at The Energy Daily Transmission Siting Policy Summit about the need for FERC to have a national rulemaking on cost allocation to allow for creating a clean energy grid.  [Read more →]

On September 30, 2009, U.S. Department of the Interior (“DOI”) Secretary Ken Salazar said that DOI will be fast-tracking seven of thirty project applications for rights of way on public lands in Idaho, California, and Nevada.  [Read more →]