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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's ("FERC") Office of Electric Reliability and Enforcement and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation ("NERC") staff presented a series of findings and...

Oklahoma landowners fighting a pipeline company about restoration of their land are criticizing Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chair Richard Glick, saying recent statements show a lack of support for their cause.

Feds fine dam owners $15M for safety violations after 2020 mid-Michigan flooding 11,000 residents displaced in May 2020 after mid-Michigan dams breached Tags:  A portion of Jones Road in Billings, Mich., is completely gone Thursday, May 21, 2020, after it was decimated by flooding caused by dam failures. (Katy Kildee/Midland Daily News via AP) Hydroelectric dam owner Boyce Hydro Power, LLC has been fined millions for safety violations after dam failures caused catastrophic floods near Midland....

© Getty Images In a petition Wednesday, the Center for Biological Diversity called on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to take action against what it says are electric utilities’ use of customer money to bankroll anti-environmental lobbying organizations. The environmental group argues in its petition that customers unknowingly subsidize lobbying activity with their bill payments, specifically citing the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) funding of the Republican Attorneys ...

Friends of Nelson fighting for pipeline easements to be released Friends of Nelson fighting for pipeline easements to be released By Andrew Webb | March 7, 2021 at 9:51 PM EST - Updated March 8 at 9:28 AM NELSON, Va. (WVIR) - “Our Community Won” signs are posted along Route 151 in Nelson County, referring to the July 2020 cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project. Although, the pipeline will never touch the ground in Nelson County, many landowners are having to fight for what...

Chairman Richard Glick said the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission won’t be satisfied with issuing mere “guidance” to Texas power generators, as it did after the 2011 freeze.

The U.S. could double its capacity for new wind and solar power, save billions of dollars and cut millions of tons of carbon-dioxide emissions from its generation fleets if federal incentives can be aligned to deploy a suite of technologies to unlock the full capacity of transmission grids.   So says a new report from The Brattle Group, modeling the benefits of a set of "grid-enhancing technologies" across the wind-power-rich grids of Kansas and Oklahoma. According to its analysis, spendin...

Texas Natural Gas Prices Attract Federal Investigation After 10,000% Spike 02/23/21 AT 6:08 PM After Texan natural gas companies used massive price hikes to make money during the recent deadly winter storms, federal regulators are taking a closer look at the state’s energy market. The 10,000% increase has attracted the attention of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Congress, CNN reports. As Texas spent days under snow, wind and freezing tem...

Though the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project was abandoned last year, property owners who sold their land, or had it taken via eminent domain, find themselves with few options.

FERC examining wrongdoing in power markets during cold snap FacebookTwitterEmail A map of Texas showing the state s transmission lines is a focal point in the control room of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates most of the states power grid. (Ryan Holeywell/Houston Chronicle)Ryan Holeywell / Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced Monday it would be examining power market activity over the last week for incidents of market manipula...