Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
also referred to as: ferc
19 statements across 9 episodes · 5 bullish · 5 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Mar 11, 2022 by Astrid Atkinson · said 112 times in 16 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shayle Kann (52), Rob Gramlich (15), Allison Clements (12), Maeve Allsup (7), Tyler Norris (5), Astrid Atkinson (4), Matthew Sachs (3), Liza Reed (3)
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2026 13 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2025 55 mentions in 4 episodes 14 per episode
2024 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2023 31 mentions in 4 episodes 8 per episode
2022 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
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Mar 11, 2022 neutral
Atkinson: Distribution utilities lack systems to handle FERC 2222 energy resources
“It actually mandates that those aggregations are allowed to cross multiple connection points between the transmission system and local grids. And so that actually puts quite a bit of pressure onto distribution utilities to figure out mechanisms that would allo…”
Nov 3, 2022
Reed: FERC has held federal gas pipeline siting authority for over 80 years
“For natural gas infrastructure in the U.S., that happens at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. They've had this authority for more than 80 years that pipelines used in interstate commerce are cited at the federal level”
Jan 26, 2023 neutral
May 4, 2023 positive
Jul 31, 2025 neutral
Piper: PJM now procures capacity just one year in advance
“They had to pause the auctions for a number of years, and despite efforts to catch up and get back to that four-year forward schedule, they essentially fell so far behind that now they are in a situation where they are procuring capacity just for the next reli…”
Oct 30, 2025 bearish
Norris: State Regulators and Utilities Will Oppose DOE Interconnection Jurisdiction Expansion
“There's this jurisdictional question, and on that one, I think there's obviously going to be a variety of perspectives, and there will be concerns on the part of, especially of some state commissioners, officials, and certainly the investor-owned utilities.”
Oct 30, 2025
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
Clements: FERC Unanimously Rejected DOE's 2017 Coal and Nuclear Rulemaking Proposal
“In 2017, the administration sent over a letter of, with a proposed rulemaking to then Chair Neal Chatterjee and the FERC requesting them to subsidize coal and nuclear plants with some you know, on-site fuel supply benefit and that FERC unanimously rejected Mov…”
Oct 30, 2025 positive
Clements: DOE proposes 60-day fast-track for curtailable power loads
“And three, and the exciting part that I know Tyler's going to want to jump in on, is that it suggests that if loads are willing to be curtailed, curtailable, if loads will stop when asked, stop taking power from the grid when asked by the grid operator, they s…”
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
Clements: FERC has avoided standardized rules since standard market design failed
“Historically, the agency has also really been kind of a thousand flowers blooming type place, and been, ever since standard market design failed in 2000, been, the agency's been really skittish about requiring standardized anything across the board.”
Oct 30, 2025 positive
Oct 30, 2025 positive
Clements: Excluding virtual power plants violates Federal Power Act non-discrimination rules
“The other nice thing about not getting specific, that specific about technologies is that it'll, it'll, it'll, it's legitimate under the Federal Power Act, which is FERC's guiding principle, right? And so to the extent that there are attempts to do things like…”
Nov 20, 2025 neutral
Nov 20, 2025 positive
Gramlich: Some inter-regional transmission lines will get built without permitting reform
“Some of these lines are, you know, looking very, very promising, so I do think we will get some of those under the current regime, even if we don't get permitting reform, but if we get permitting reform you know, and or significant FERC action in the interregi…”
Jun 25, 2026 bearish
Allsup: Early opposition makes 2029 Mid-Atlantic transmission target unlikely
“The level of opposition, the force of that opposition at such an early stage, relatively I, I'm less than optimistic, I guess, about this particular project. I do think maybe a lot will depend on what FERC does in this parallel proceeding, but I feel like they…”
Jun 25, 2026 negative
States use tech hyperscalers' ratepayer pledge to fight transmission tariffs
“In their complaints to FERC, for example, a bunch of states have cited that pledge, and I think that creates it's an opening for any time anyone wants to argue against however a tariff is getting structured, or a new transmission line, or whatever it might be …”