Miles Kiger

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On April 26, 2019, PPL Electric Utilities Corporation (“PPL Electric”) petitioned the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (“D.C. Circuit”) for review of two FERC rehearing orders that replaced the cost allocation method by which PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”) assigns responsibility for a portion of costs for certain facilities that address stability-related reliability issues.  Specifically, FERC’s rehearing orders changed the cost allocation method used for certain facilities, including the Artificial…
On April 29, 2019, FERC accepted revisions proposed by PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”) to its Open Access Transmission Tariff (“Tariff”) and Amended and Restated Operating Agreement (“Operating Agreement”) to allow market participants to submit day-ahead offers that vary by hour and to update such offers in real time (“April Order”).  FERC also denied PJM’s motion for clarification as to whether PJM’s Independent Market Monitor (“IMM”) may file certain complaints against PJM.…
On April 17, 2019, FERC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) in which it proposed to approve, pending certain modifications, Critical Infrastructure Protection (“CIP”) Reliability Standard CIP-012-1 (“Proposed Reliability Standard”), as submitted by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (“NERC”).  The Proposed Reliability Standard is designed to mitigate cybersecurity risks associated with communications between bulk electric system control centers.  While FERC found that the Proposed Reliability Standard largely met FERC’s directive set forth in…
On April 18, 2019, FERC partially granted a complaint American Wind Energy Association and the Wind Coalition filed against the Southwest Power Pool, Inc. (“SPP”), alleging that the membership exit fee provisions, as applied to entities who are not transmission owners, violated the cost causation principle and resulted in unduly discriminatory rates (the “Complaint”).  FERC found that SPP’s membership exit fee is unjust and unreasonable because it creates a barrier to SPP membership for non-transmission…
On April 10, 2019, FERC dismissed a complaint (“Complaint”) filed by RTO Insider LLC (“RTO Insider”) concerning the New England Power Pool Participants Committee’s (“NEPOOL”) policies prohibiting press and non-member attendance and reporting on NEPOOL stakeholder meetings.  FERC granted NEPOOL’s Motion to Dismiss, stating that it lacked jurisdiction over the NEPOOL policies because NEPOOL is not a public utility and the policies in question do not directly affect jurisdictional rates.…
On March 29, 2019, FERC issued an order accepting revisions to the Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc.’s (“MISO”) Open Access Transmission, Energy, and Operating Reserve Markets Tariff (“Tariff”) to enhance the scheduling of Generator Planned Outages—i.e., the scheduled removal of a generator from service for inspection, maintenance, or repair.  While MISO previously managed planned outages through voluntary rescheduling, the Tariff revisions at issue: 1) impose penalties for outages scheduled during low capacity margin, high risk…
On March 26, 2019, FERC accepted, subject to condition, AMP Transmission, LLC’s (“AMP”) proposed formula rate template and implementation protocols (collectively, “Formula Rate”) to recover a revenue requirement based on a cash-flow method for AMP’s integrated transmission facilities located in the PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”) region.  As a minor condition of acceptance, FERC directed AMP to revise on compliance its Formula Rate to enable AMP to use it in PJM transmission zones that require different…
On March 21, 2019, FERC issued a Notice of Inquiry (“NOI”) seeking information regarding whether and how to revise its policy for determining the rate of return on equity (“ROE”) used in setting rates charged by jurisdictional public utilities.  The NOI also seeks comment on whether any changes to the Commission’s ROE policies for public utilities should be applied to interstate natural gas and oil pipelines.  Specifically, the NOI requests information in eight areas:  (1)…
On March 11, 2019, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”) made a filing informing FERC that it has begun advising Capacity Market Sellers to use both its existing capacity market rules, as well as its proposed Capacity Reform rules while it awaits a final order from FERC on the proposed reforms.  PJM stated that this approach ensures that all Capacity Market Sellers will have satisfied both the existing and PJM’s proposed pre-auction requirements prior to the conduct…
On February 28, 2019, FERC denied the Coalition of Midwest Power Producers, Inc.’s (“Power Producers”) complaint alleging that Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (“MISO”) violated its tariff (“OATT”) by not requiring all capacity resources to be deliverable up to their installed capacity levels (“Complaint”).  FERC concluded that MISO reasonably implemented its OATT provisions regarding capacity resources.…