January 9, 2018
Calling Grid Resilience "An Important Issue," And Directing RTOs To Be "Proactive", FERC Opens New Proceeding On Grid Resiliency While Rejecting DOE's Sought Cost-Of-Service Payments
FERC rejected a request from the U.S. Department of Energy to adopt a cost-of-service rate to provide non-market compensation to resources in RTOs for the, "reliability, resiliency, and on-site fuel assurance," provided by such resources, but FERC ordered further investigation of grid resiliency…