Recent Regulatory Orders and WIRES Filings and Testimony

WIRES Filings and Testimony

Date	Title
September 29, 2010	WIRES Comments Support FERC's Evolving Views on Regional Transmission Planning, Cost Allocation Also: Read the WIRES Comments Filed with FERC, September 29th, 2010

June 17, 2010	WIRES Lauds FERC’s Rulemaking on Regional Transmission Planning, Cost Allocation

November 2009	WIRES Comments on FERC Staff's Inquiry Into Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation Under FERC Order 890

April 17, 2009	WIRES Letter to Carol Browner Outlines Priorities and Perspectives Regarding Legislative Agenda See also: Browner Urged by WIRES to Push 'Sensible' Grid Reform published in Megawatt Daily (April 22, 2009). Reposted with permission, Platts, The McGraw-Hill Companies.

February 25, 2009	Statement by James Hoecker, Counsel to WIRES, at House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming hearing on Smart Grid

December 2008	Comments Filed by WIRES on the 2009 Congestion Study Which May Precede More Corridor Designations

October 14, 2008	Statement at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of Joseph L. Welch, Chairman, President and CEO, ITC Holdings Corp.

October 14, 2008	Statement at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of Paul D. McCoy, President, Trans-Elect Development Company

July 31, 2008	James J. Hoecker Testimony before U.S. Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee

June 17, 2008	Senate Energy & Natual Resources Questions to Will Kaul, Great River Energy

June 17, 2008	William Kaul before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee

July 6, 2007	WIRES Comments on D.O.E. National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors

September 6, 2007	F.E.R.C. Approves ITCTransmission, METC, LLC and MISO Request to Repay Generators for Network Connections

February 22, 2007	WIRES Motion to Intervene and Comments of WIRES at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Support of Proposed Declaratory Order for the California Independent System Operator Corporation Docket No. EL07-33-000

April, 2007	Transmission Delivers Clean Energy - WIRES and American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)

	WIRES Comments Filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Docket on Preventing Undue Discrimination and Preference in Transmission Service RM05-25-000 & RM05-17-000

FERC Updates

Date	Title
April 8, 2011	FERC Order 717-D in Docket No. RM07-1-003, Standards of Conduct for Transmission Providers

March 23, 2010	Chairman Jon Wellinghoff says FERC "will consider" rulemaking on transmission cost allocation (Testimony before Energy & Environment Subcommittee of the House Energy & Commerce Committee)

July 2009	FERC Adopts Policy for Development of Smart Grid

May 2009	FERC Approves Funding Plan For Major International Transmission Project Llinking Hydro-Quebec with ISO New England

February 2009	FERC Signals New Flexibility For Merchant Transmission Projects In Approval of Rates for Chinook Power Transmission, LLC and Zephyr Power Transmission, LLC, Docket Nos: ER09-432-000, ER09-433-000)

February 18, 2009	Federal Appeals Court Reverses FERC Interpretation Of Backstop Role in Siting; ruling in case of Piedmont Environmental Council v. FERC, No. 07-1651, slip op. (4th Cir.)

Other Filings and Testimony

Date	Title
January 4, 2010	American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) file comments expressing general support WIRES call for aggressive FERC action on cost allocation principles to speed grid development
December 18, 2009	Comments of Peter Fox-Penner, Johannes Pfeifenberger and Delphine Hou (Brattle Group)

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