July 16, 2009

FERC’s Smart Grid Policy Statement (And an Aside on Federal-State Jurisdictional Issues)

Michael Giberson Also emerging from today’s FERC meeting, issuance of the Commission’s smart grid policy statement. At present only a press release and the chairman’s statement is available, but likely the full policy statement and remarks by other commissioners will be posted on the FERC home page in the next few hours. I imagine our …

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FERC Directs New York Power System Operator to Fix “Loop Flow” Scheduling Problem

Michael Giberson Today the FERC approved public release of the results of an internal staff investigation into allegations of “loop flow”-based market manipulations in the New York ISO market (see links below): In this order, we authorize the public disclosure of the attached Office of Enforcement Staff Report (OE Report) addressing its non-public investigation of …

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