Below are brief summaries of the agenda items for the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC or the Commission) open
meeting to be held on May 13th1, at 11:00 a.m. ET. The
summaries below are based on publicly available information in the
dockets listed on the FERC agenda at the time of publication. For
ease of reference, a link to each lead docket on the meeting agenda
has been included. The Commission may decide to remove any items
from the meeting agenda at any time.
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Item No.
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Docket No.
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Company
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ADMINISTRATIVE
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A-1
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AD24-1-000
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Agency Administrative Matters
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A-2
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AD24-2-000
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Customer Matters, Reliability, Security, and Market
Operations
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ELECTRIC
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E-1
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RM21-17-000
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Building for the Future Through Electric Regional
Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation
On April 21, 2022, FERC issued a notice of proposed rulemaking
(NOPR) in which it proposed numerous reforms to remedy deficiencies
in the Commission’s existing regional transmission planning and
cost allocation requirements. In particular, FERC proposed to
require all public utility transmission providers to (1) conduct
long-term regional transmission planning on a sufficiently
forward-looking basis to meet transmission needs driven by changes
in the resource mix and demand; (2) more fully consider dynamic
line ratings and advanced power flow control devices in regional
transmission planning processes; (3) seek the agreement of relevant
state entities within the transmission planning region regarding
the cost allocation method or methods that will apply to
transmission facilities selected in the regional transmission plan
for purposes of cost allocation through long-term regional
transmission planning; (4) adopt enhanced transparency requirements
for local transmission planning processes and improve coordination
between regional and local transmission planning with the aim of
identifying potential opportunities to “right-size”
replacement transmission facilities; and (5) revise their existing
interregional transmission coordination procedures to reflect the
long-term regional transmission planning reforms proposed in the
NOPR. In addition, the NOPR would not permit public utility
transmission providers to take advantage of the
construction-work-in-progress incentive for regional transmission
facilities selected for purposes of cost allocation through
long-term regional transmission planning and would permit the
exercise of federal rights of first refusal for transmission
facilities selected in a regional transmission plan for purposes of
cost allocation, conditioned on the incumbent transmission provider
with the federal right of first refusal for such regional
transmission facilities establishing joint ownership of the
transmission facilities. Agenda item E-1 may be an order regarding
the NOPR.
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E-2
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RM22-7-000
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Applications for Permits to Site Interstate Electric
Transmission Facilities
On December 15, 2022, FERC issued a notice of proposed
rulemaking in which it proposed to revise its existing regulations
governing applications for permits to site electric transmission
facilities under section 216 of the Federal Power Act. The proposed
amendments are intended to ensure consistency with amendments to
section 216 enacted by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
of 2021, modernize certain regulatory requirements, and provide
updates and clarifications to make FERC’s review of permit
applications more efficient, including through concurrent state and
federal review of construction permits for new transmission lines,
with certain limitations. Additional information about the proposed
rulemaking is available through this Update.
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Footnote
1. On the same date that FERC released its Sunshine
Notice for its April 25, 2024, open meeting, FERC released a
Sunshine Notice for a special open meeting to be held on May 13,
2024. FERC’s calendar continues to reflect a regularly
scheduled open meeting for May 23, 2024, for which a Sunshine
Notice has not yet been issued.
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