January 17, 2025
A split Sixth Circuit panel Friday backed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision to revoke an incentive for power companies that are required to be members of a regional transmission organization, ruling that federal law requires that utilities voluntarily participate in an RTO to receive the incentive.
May 08, 2024
A Sixth Circuit panel on Wednesday questioned the role of a rate perk given to transmission companies for choosing to join a regional transmission organization as it weighed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision to yank the incentive for several Ohio utilities while preserving it for others.
October 31, 2023
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has defended its decision to yank an incentive for power companies that are required to be members of PJM Interconnection under Ohio law, telling the Sixth Circuit the incentives are only available to companies that voluntarily join such regional transmission organizations.
August 23, 2023
PJM Interconnection threw its support behind power companies challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision to yank an incentive for involuntarily belonging to the regional transmission organization, telling the Sixth Circuit the move violates its legal mandate to provide incentives for joining it.
August 01, 2023
Three power companies told the Sixth Circuit that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission wrongly yanked an incentive from one of them and one of their transmission affiliates for involuntarily belonging to a regional transmission organization, while keeping the incentive for other transmission owners in Ohio.