Wind Power Trade Association Seeks Reforms to Generator Interconnection Process

Jul 14, 2015

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Other proposed reforms include limiting the amount of restudies to one per year and capping a project developers’ additional cost responsibility for network upgrades and interconnection facilities at a stated accuracy margin.

A petition for rulemaking is one of the ways in which a rulemaking process may begin at FERC. FERC’s notice of the petition initiates a comment period that will allow interested parties to provide FERC with their perspectives on the issues raised in the petition. After FERC reviews the filed comments, the agency may issue an order or notice denying the petition, or it may decide to initiate further action, such as through a Notice of Inquiry or a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.

Comments on the petition may be filed by any interested party until August 6, 2015.

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