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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to investigate systemic failures during this month’s weather emergency and to protect Kansans from demand-related price surges for natural gas and electricity.

Calls grow for investigation into natural gas supplies (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) Matt Slocum/AP FILE - In this July 11, 2012 file photo the Marcus Hook Refinery is seen through a fence, in Marcus Hook, Pa. The FBI is investigating how Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration came to issue permits for construction on a multibillion-dollar pipeline to carry natural gas liquids across Pennsylva...

Texas grid fails to weatherize, repeats mistake feds cited 10 years ago FacebookTwitterEmail 1of153 People line up to fill their empty propane tanks at a business on the North Freeway Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021 in Houston. Temperatures stayed below freezing Tuesday, with many still without power.Brett Coomer/Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 2of153 Shanice Ardion holds her jacket tight in her home as her stove burns in the background Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, at Cuney Homes in Houston. She said th...

Richard Glick has a long list of priorities for his chairmanship of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He has already outlined many of them, such as reforming energy market policies that restrict state-supported clean energy resources, expanding transmission capacity and unblocking new grid interconnections, and incorporating climate change impacts into the agency’s decision-making process.  On Thursday, in his first press conference since being elevated to lead FERC last month by Pr...

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Richard Glick has said he will create a senior position dedicated to addressing environmental justice and equity concerns at the agency.

How can U.S. transmission grids and wholesale energy markets adapt to the gigawatts of energy storage coming online over the next decade?  In the near future, the scale of the batteries serving U.S. power grids is set to explode, increasing from about 1.5 gigawatts today to tens or hundreds of gigawatts by 2030. These batteries will play a vital role in shifting intermittent wind and solar power from when it’s produced to when it’s needed and serving broader grid services needs on an inc...

Friday, January 29, 2021 FERC Proposes Financial Assurance Measures for Hydropower Licensees On January 19, 2021, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) inviting comments on whether FERC should require financial assurance measures in hydropower licenses and other authorizations.  Triggered by recent public safety events, the NOI explains that a number of hydropower projects are non-operational or out of compliance with the license and the l...

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 Recently certain policy advocates have suggested that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) should attempt to revitalize the Federal Power Act Section 216 “backstop siting” authority as a means of addressing climate change.  Their objective is to facilitate the construction of more long-haul transmission lines from areas with excess renewable generation, so zero-emitting generation can reach more markets. This post does not comment on that ob...

3 Min Read FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden walks past solar panels while touring the Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative in Plymouth, New Hampshire, U.S., June 4, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday named Richard Glick, a Democrat, to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where he could eventually lead the panel to consider lowering barriers for emerging cl...

Rob Gramlich, president of Grid Strategies, has a simple explanation for why U.S. transmission grid policy has stalled the growth of wind and solar power.  “If you talk to a developer, they will say [that] the grid operators and transmission owners are woefully slow and unpredictable in terms of what it costs to connect, and the process is extremely frustrating,” he said in a Monday interview.   “If you talk to the grid operators, they’ll say, Renewables developers keep throwing in ...