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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Richard Glick has sought to smooth tensions with states whose varied clean energy policies have come into conflict with the nation s mandatory power capacity markets. In its natural gas project work, FERC has begun to elevate considerations of climate change, environmental justice and community impacts, at times rattling pipeline companies worried about the permanence of its decisions supporting projects. Glick is attacking everything. He is at warp speed right now, said Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen, rattling off multiple policy initiatives, rulemakings and workshops on the gas and power agenda.
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Utility Pushes FERC To Restore PURPA Eligibility Change
Law360 (April 20, 2021, 8:42 PM EDT) A utility told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that it should not have reversed itself in March when it handed a win to small-scale electricity producers concerned about how they qualified for power purchase agreements under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act.
NorthWestern Energy, a utility serving more than 700,000 consumers across Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska, said in its rehearing bid Monday that FERC s March order undermines the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act s requirement that utilities buy power made available by renewable and cogeneration projects only if those projects are smaller than 80 megawatts.
Feds asked to strike down Alabama Power solar fee
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The Alabama Environmental Council had five solar panels installed at the group s recycling center in the Avondale neighborhood of Birmingham, Ala. The installation was completed on June 21, 2016. (Dennis Pillion | dpillion@al.com)Dennis Pillion
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Alabama solar advocates are asking federal regulators to overrule the state’s Public Service Commission and strike down fees that Alabama Power charges to its customers with solar panels.
The Southern Environmental Law Center filed a petition last week with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, asking the federal agency to order Alabama’s PSC to end the fee, arguing it does not comply with federal utility law because it is not based on the actual costs of providing power to those customers.
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