Can IOUs now monitor QFs for technical standards compliance? FERC has issued the first ``yes``
- Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts, Washington, DC (United States)
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has handed investor-owned utilities a major victory in their continuing disputes with owners of independent electric power plants certified as Qualifying Facilities. In a decision issued July 30, 1997, FERC upheld virtually all of a New York Public Service Commission program requiring owners of QFs to provide data to their utility customers to allow the utilities to monitor their continuing compliance with the technical requirements for QF status. The paper discusses avoided cost rates that produce stranded costs; the FERC administration of the QF program; a California program that was nullified by the Ninth Circuit; utilities reaction; New York PSC adoption of a monitoring program; FERC rules that the NY program is not unduly burdensome; retroactive application of monitoring program that was held unreasonable; developments in the energy world; and the recommendation that QF owners must sharpen data collection skills.
- OSTI ID:
- 586065
- Journal Information:
- Cogeneration and Competitive Power Journal, Journal Name: Cogeneration and Competitive Power Journal Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 13; ISSN CCPJE8; ISSN 1066-8683
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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