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Recent Regulatory Orders and WIRES Filings and Testimony

In this section, you will find regulatory filings WIRES has made with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as well as papers on policy issues currently under discussion.


 
WIRES Filings and Testimony

Date

Title 

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 

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
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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