Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - What's New

FERC today denied SunZia Transmission LLC’s (SunZia) requests regarding negotiated rate authority and the allocation of firm transmission rights by some owners of the proposed jointly-owned SunZia Southwest Transmission Project (Project).

FERC today launched an inquiry into the spot market energy price cap in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) outside of California to ensure that market distortions do not develop between the two markets.

FERC is seeking to improve price transparency in natural gas markets with a new rule requiring intrastate natural gas pipelines involved in interstate services to more frequently report their transportation and storage transaction information.

FERC today acted to help interstate natural gas pipelines operate more efficiently by approving a method by which a pipeline can recover fuel costs.