FERC Rejects Awarding Subsidies to Coal and Nuclear Units

SUGAR LAND--January 9, 2018--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) (Washington, D.C.) on Monday terminated its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) into whether coal-fired and nuclear power plants should be given subsidies that recognized their grid reliability and resilience characteristics that stemmed from baseload power plants having 90 days of fuel stockpiled on their sites. Instead, the commission opened a new regulatory proceeding that will "holistically examine the resilience of the bulk power system." Within this article: FERC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR)