Posts from — September 2010

On August 30, 2010, FERC issued an order clarifying the state netting policies for station power.  The order was on remand from two orders from the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit (“DC Circuit”).   In the FERC order on remand, the Commission said it will not encroach upon a state’s right to establish netting periods for station power; thus, for retail calculations, states do not have to adopt the same methodology that FERC uses for calculating station power sold in interstate commerce. [Read more →]

On August 30, 2010, United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that 37 rural utilities and cooperatives in 20 states will receive guaranteed loans in order to finance the construction and repair of nearly 7,000 miles of distribution and transmission lines. [Read more →]