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Ancillary Services
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Washington Energy Report
FERC Issues Rule on Third-Party Provision of Ancillary Services; Accounting and Financial Reporting for New Electric Storage Facilities
On Thursday, July 18, 2013, FERC issued Order No. 784, the final rule on third-party provision of ancillary services and the accounting and financial reporting for new electric storage facilities…
Health Care Law Matters
President Proposes Eliminating Stark In-Office Ancillary Services Exception For Therapy and Advanced Imaging
In what would undoubtedly be a devastating blow to many medical practices that rely on the Stark in-office ancillary services exception (which allows physicians to refer within their practices for…
CommLawBlog
Reminder: ALL DTV Broadcasters Must File Form 317 by December 3
If you're broadcasting video in digital, we're talking to you.
Washington Energy Report
FERC Issues Multiple NOPRs
At the open meeting on June 21, 2012, FERC announced the issuance of multiple Notice of Public Rulemakings (“NOPR”) pertaining to: (1) changes to policies governing the sale of ancillary…
CommLawBlog
Reminder: All DTV Broadcasters Must File Form 317 by December 1
All you DTV broadcasters! Before you start to carve the turkey and settle in for a long Thanksgiving weekend of football later this week, don't forget to make a note…
Broadcast Law Blog
DTV Station Reminder: FCC Form 317 Reporting on Ancillary Services Due Dec. 1st
By December 1, 2011, all commercial and noncommercial full power digital television (DTV) stations, as well as all digital low power, Class A, and television translator stations must electronically file an…
Environment, Land & Resources
FERC Opens Comment Period on Improving Integration of Energy Storage Technologies into the Nation’s Bulk Power Grid
On June 16, 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a notice of inquiry (NOI) in Docket Nos. RM11-24-000 and AD10-13-000 seeking comment on ways to facilitate the increased…
Health Industry Washington Watch
MedPAC Recommends Changes to Medicare Ancillary Services Policies
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has released its June 2011 "Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System." Most notably, the report includes a number of…
Renewable + Law
FERC Seeks Comments on Ancillary Markets and Energy Storage
On June 16, 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) seeking comments on what it described as two separate but related issues, both of…
Smart Grid Legal News
FERC seeks Comments on Energy Storage and Ancillary Services
By Linda Evers
Chairman Wellinghoff stressed that ancillary services are broader than energy storage and he made it clear the development of a vibrant ancillary services market is an important element of the Commission’s…