Wind Integration Costs At Issue In Oregon PURPA Dispute

Law360, New York (November 23, 2015, 11:07 AM EST) -- For the past several years, Portland General Electric Company (PGE) has been battling with the developer of a remote supplier of wind power over who bears responsibility for the costs of integrating the supplier's variable output into the grid. In two orders issued earlier this year,[1] the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission sided with the developer, holding in effect that incurring those costs was incidental to PGE's obligation under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to enable the developer to sell the entire net output of its facility to PGE....

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