FERC's regional transmission planning policy takes shape

Electricity Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 22-32

  Davis, Tracy C ^a  

^a Bracewell and Giuliani LLP   (United States)

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COST-ALLOCATION; FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSIONS; PLANNING POLICIES; POLICY REFORMS; TRANSMISSION COSTS; TRANSMISSION PLANNING;

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EID: 84884415549     PISSN: 10406190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2013.06.014     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. 16 USC sec. P 824.
2. Piedmont Environmental Council v. FERC, 558 F.3d 304 (4th Cir. 2009).
3. California Wilderness Coalition v. US Dep't of Energy, 631 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 2011).
4. Presidential Memorandum, Transforming our Nation's Electric Grid Through Improved Siting, Permitting, and Review (issued Jun. 7, 2013), at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pressoffice/ 2013/06/07/presidentialmemorandum- transforming-ournations- electric-grid-through-i.
5. Order No. 890 at P 452.
6. Order No. 890-A at P 216.
7. Order No. 890 at P 501.
8. See Order No. 1000 at P 31.
9. Order No. 1000 at PP 4, 6, 148.
10. Order No. 1000 at PP 622-4.
11. Order No. 1000-A at PP 678-9.
12. Order No. 1000 at P 9.
13. Order No. 1000 at P 685.
14. Order No. 1000 at P 253.
15. Order No. 1000 at PP 7, 329.
16. See, e.g., Statement of Commissioner John R. Norris on Order No. 1000 Compliance Filings, issued in Docket Nos. ER13-198-000, ER13-75-000, and ER13-187-000 (Mar. 21, 2013) (observing that the Order No. 1000 compliance phase ''is as critical as issuing the original rule itself'').
17. Order No. 1000 at P 148.
18. Order No. 1000 (Moeller, Comm'r, dissenting in part).
19. The Mobile-Sierra doctrine was first announced in United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Mobile Gas Service Corp., 350 U.S. 332 (1956) and FPC v. Sierra Pacific Power Co., 350 U.S. 348 (1956).
20. See, e.g., Statement of Commissioner John R. Norris on Order No. 1000 Compliance Filings, issued in Docket Nos. ER13-198-000, ER13-75-000, and ER13-187-000 (Mar. 21, 2013) (noting that, while Order No. 1000 gave deference to state laws and regulations regarding the siting and construction of transmission facilities, he was concerned ''by efforts to extend state laws and regulations into the federal planning process itself in a manner that limits the projects that may be considered for inclusion in the regional plan.'').
21. See Order No. 1000 at PP 148, 154-5, 779 (requiring transmission providers in a transmission planning region to consider proposed nontransmission alternatives on a comparable basis).
22. See Order No. 1000-A at P 680.