In 1978, FERC was given additional responsibilities for harmonizing the regulation of wellhead gas sales in both the intrastate and interstate markets.

The company's action was investigated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) in the United States and Powerex was sued by the Attorney General of California, Bill Lockyer, who accused the BC Hydro subsidiary of " market manipulation " and " gouging " consumers.

The lawsuit was dismissed in August 2005 by a U. S. district court, which affirmed the FERC jurisdiction on the issue.

The dam's current license from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) was issued in March 1959, and expires in February 2009.

The final approval required from the FERC for “ return to normal project operations ” was received on April 1, 2010.

The OASIS concept was originally conceived with the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and formalized in 1996 through Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) Orders 888 and 889.

( In 1977, the Federal Power Commission was replaced by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC )).

It was replaced by a much weaker set of laws called the " Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 " which gave the FERC a limited role in allocating the costs of multi-state electric utility holding companies to individual operating subsidiaries.

The acquisition was approved by FERC and the companies officially combined on March 12, 2012 with Constellation Energy taking the Exelon name and the corporate headquarters moving to Exelon in Chicago, Illinois.

El Paso gas trader Todd Geiger was prosecuted by the FERC for falsely making up 48 gas trades.

FERC also reviews and authorizes liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) terminals, interstate natural gas pipelines and non-federal hydropower projects.

The DOE Act also transferred the regulation of interstate oil pipelines from the Interstate Commerce Commission to FERC.

FERC also administered a program to foster new cogeneration and small power production under the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act of 1978.

FERC is also self-funding.

FERC has also been heavily involved in the California electricity crisis and in investigating allegations of electricity market manipulation by Enron and other energy companies.

FERC is also working with Canadian energy officials to facilitate processing of a proposed Alaskan Natural Gas Pipeline, which would bring natural gas from Alaska's North Slope to the lower 48 States.

FERC also works closely with the United States Coast Guard in reviewing the safety, security and environmental impacts of proposed LNG terminals and associated shipping.

FERC also reviews and authorizes liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) terminals, interstate natural gas pipelines and non-federal hydropower projects.

Following passage of the EPAct of 1992, independent generation owner / operators ( also called independent power producers or IPPs ) and unaffiliated power marketers lodged frequent complaints with FERC about unfair treatment under the new open access requirements.

To protect and promote generation competition and also enforce fair treatment of external users of the transmission system, FERC issued Order 888 and Order 889 on April 24, 1996.

Only electric utilities that are located within the United States fall under FERC authority, but a larger organization called the North American Electric Reliability Corporation ( NERC ) overlays the entire FERC footprint and also includes a Mexican utility and several Canadian utilities.

Additional federal regulation of transmission and sales is added by NERC and FERC.

As part of that responsibility, FERC:

As a further protection, when DOE proposes a rulemaking, it must refer the proposal to FERC, and FERC can take over the proceeding if FERC determines that the rulemaking " may significantly affect " matters in its jurisdiction.

FERC is independent of the Department of Energy, but DOE may intervene just like any other party in FERC proceedings.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) is the United States federal agency with jurisdiction over interstate electricity sales, wholesale electric rates, hydroelectric licensing, natural gas pricing, and oil pipeline rates.

* The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) is the United States federal agency with jurisdiction over interstate electricity sales, wholesale electric rates, hydroelectric licensing, natural gas pricing, and oil pipeline rates.

Since the inception of OASIS, and under the prodding of FERC to move transmission assets under the control of ISO's, the number of OASIS nodes is decreasing as ISO's assume control of transmission systems and consolidate their related OASIS functions.

The former Grid West participants who had argued for an eventual RTO, mainly investor-owned utilities and state representatives from Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Utah, formed the Northern Tier Transmission Group ( NTTG ), a nascent effort open to evolution but initially focused on inexpensive and relatively easy improvements to grid management, including area control error ( ACE ) diversity interchange, currently underway ; transparent methodologies for calculating available transmission capacity ; and planning, as required by FERC Order 890.

The increase in annual costs to consumers in New England alone were calculated at $ 3 billion during the recent FERC hearings on the NEPOOL market structure.

In 1994 an agreement on relicensing the various dams with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) and the Massachusetts and Vermont state authorities that regulate water quality led to comprehensive coordinated water release and power generation schedules to enable more recreational use of the river, with minimum water flow measures to mitigate the dam impact on riverine habitat.

Out of growing concern and frustration with AEP management and FERC oversight, SMPreview. com is operated by a citizen / business watchdog group to keep the community up-to-date on shoreline management issues.

On December 8, 2005, FERC recommended that Congress amend the 2005 Act to give FERC ( 1 ) cost allocation authority over gas subsidiaries, and ( 2 ) greater enforcement authority over gas subsidiaries, but Congress has not acted on FERC's request.

* EPAct 2005: An Interview with Alison Silverstein Alison Silverstein, former Senior Energy Policy Advisor at FERC, thoughts on EPAct 2005, AMI-MDM, and demand response

In recent years, the FERC has been promoting the voluntary formation of Regional Transmission Organizations ( RTOs ) and Independent System Operators ( ISOs ) to eliminate the potential for undue discrimination in access to the electric grid.

FERC regulates approximately 1, 600 hydroelectric projects in the U. S. It is largely responsible for permitting the construction of a large network of interstate natural gas pipelines.

* Reporting and Compliance with FERC and NERC: Best Practices for Meeting the Challenge

On July 20, 2006, FERC issued an order certifying NERC as the ERO for the United States.

Several mechanisms that are intended to incent new investment where it is most needed by offering enhanced capacity payments ( but only in zones where generation is projected to be short ) have been proposed for NEPOOL, PJM and NYPOOL, and go under the generic heading of " locational capacity " or LICAP ( the PJM version currently 2006 under FERC review is called the " Reliability Pricing Model ", or " RPM ").

All commercial HomePlug implementations meet the AES-128 encryption standard specified for advanced metering infrastructure by the US FERC.

There is pending legislation in the US Senate that would amend PURPA to require FERC to develop standards for interconnection of distributed generation facilities, and that would require “ electric utilities ” meeting the PURPA size requirement ( retail sales of more than 500 million kw hrs ) to implement those standards.

To encourage the use and implementation of demand response in the United States, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) issued Order No. 745 in March 2011, which requires a certain level of compensation for providers of economic demand response that participate in wholesale power markets.