Posts from — December 2011

On December 12, 2011, FERC Commissioner Marc Spitzer announced that effective December 14, 2011, he would be leaving the Commission.  At the December 15, 2011 FERC Monthly Meeting, Chairman Jon Wellinghoff, and the other commissioners thanked Commissioner Spitzer for his service. [Read more →]

On December 7, 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC or the “Commission”) issued an order directing the Bonneville Power Administration (“Bonneville”) to file revisions to its Open Access Transmission Tariff (“OATT”) to provide for transmission service on terms and conditions that are comparable to those under which Bonneville provides service to itself and that are not unduly discriminatory or preferential. [Read more →]

On December 5, 2011, Entergy Corporation (“Entergy”) and ITC Holdings Corp. (“ITC”) announced that Entergy will divest its transmission business and merge those assets into ITC. Entergy currently owns approximately 15,700 miles of transmission in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.  After completion of the merger, ITC will become one of the nation’s largest transmission companies with over 30,000 miles of transmission. [Read more →]

On December 2, 2011, the U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”) voted 6-0 that there was a reasonable indication that the U.S. solar panel and cells industry has been injured or is threatened with injury by imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules from China. [Read more →]

On December 9, 2011, FERC issued a stipulation and consent agreement between the Commission’s Office of Enforcement (“Enforcement”) and Atmos Energy Corporation (“Atmos”), the parent company of Atmos Energy Marketing, Inc. (“AEM”) and Trans Louisiana Gas Pipeline, Inc. (“Trans La”) assessing a civil penalty of $6,364,029 and ordering the disgorgement of $5,635,971, plus interest for the unjust profits from shipper-must-have-title violations. [Read more →]