In a significant expansion of its Owners Dam Safety Program, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is ordering owners of high- and significant-hazard dams to submit ODSP safety reports for their structures.
Pacific Northwest wind power generators have filed a new complaint against Bonneville Power Administration with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission even as BPA again ordered wind plants to cease generating to make room on the grid for free excess federal hydropower.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has endorsed the nominations of John Norris and Anthony Clark to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued two licenses and two exemptions from licensing totaling 7.199 MW and received an application for a hydrokinetic pilot project license for a tidal power project in Washington during March.
Alaska developer Whitestone Power and Communications has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a pilot hydrokinetic project license for the 100-kW Whitestone Poncelet RISEC project on the Delta and Tanana rivers in Alaska.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued a guide to its Integrated Licensing Process to help stakeholders draft requests for pre-licensing studies by hydropower license applicants.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has certified incremental generation at hydroelectric projects in eight states for renewable energy production tax credits.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a hydrokinetic pilot project license to the 300-kW Cobscook Bay Tidal Energy project in Maine as part of its hydropower regulatory activity in February.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission nominees John Norris and Anthony Clark testified March 20 before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, with Norris seeking a second term at FERC and Clark introducing himself to the panel for the first time.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved the acquisition of Maryland-based power generator Constellation Energy Group Inc. by Illinois-based utility Exelon Corp. in a $7.9 billion stock swap.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has ordered operators of the nation's first hydrokinetic project, 4.47-MW Mississippi Lock and Dam No. 2, to submit a plan to resume hydrokinetic generation at the site or to seek a license amendment deleting the hydrokinetic units from the project license.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has initiated a scoping process to develop an environmental impact statement for Alaska Energy Authority's proposed 600-MW Susitna-Watana hydroelectric project on Alaska's upper Susitna River.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved plans for a 300-KW tidal energy project near Maine's Cobscook Bay, according to members of the state's congressional delegation.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has relicensed the 43.2-MW Nantahala hydroelectric project, the last of six Duke Energy projects in North Carolina to be relicensed under terms of comprehensive settlement agreements.
Bonneville Power Administration is preparing to file a plan with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that will compensate wind power generators when BPA orders them to cease generation to make room on the grid for free excess federal hydropower resulting from high river flows in the Pacific Northwest.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has scheduled a technical conference on the need for generators to provide reactive power capability to the electricity transmission grid.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued four hydropower licenses totaling 19.072 MW and one exemption of 300 kW in January, including the pilot license for a hydrokinetic project.
President Obama has announced the renomination of Commissioner John Norris to a second term on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff has issued a final environmental impact statement recommending the licensing of the 1,300-MW Eagle Mountain pumped-storage project, proposed for Riverside County, Calif.
President Obama has nominated Republican Tony Clark of the North Dakota Public Service Commission to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, succeeding Commissioner Marc Spitzer who left FERC in December.
