Articles Tagged with ''FERC''

Multiple agencies updated their NEPA procedures after the White House Council on Environmental Quality rescinded its regulations related to the law.

Australia-based Worley is the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the planned CP2 facility and pipeline.

Nuclear plant owner says an initial 300 MW of data center development can proceed despite federal regulator's rejection of grid link agreement to its facility in Pennsylvania. 

Invenergy Transmission plans to appeal the decision and is working to start construction next year on a separate portion of the total 800-mile line that is located in Kansas and Missouri. 

Departing Democrat Allison Clements will be replaced, as two new Democrats and a Republican are set to join the independent regulator of interstate oil and gas, hydropower and transmission projects.

Long-anticipated FERC rules require power providers to conduct 20-year-ahead plans for long-term transmission needs and give agency backstop siting authority for projects that cross grid boundaries.

The U.S. Dept. of Energy has aired a flurry of changed permit mandates and other project boosts to meet rising demand for more and cleaner energy.

Regulator approves Saguaro Connector, set to send 2.8 billion cu ft of gas per day from Pecos County, Texas into Mexico for overseas LNG shipment.

Left in place is a lower court ruling that the state law is unconstitutional because it bars outside developers of federally approved regional transmission lines, which were termed “classic instruments of interstate commerce.”

Analysis noted near shutdown by utlity Con Ed in NYC, as federal energy regulator also okayed four natural gas projects but left a controversial climate change measure undecided.