Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

American  

noun

1. an independent agency of the U.S. federal government, created in 1978 and originally within the Department of Energy, charged with setting rates for transportation and sale of electricity, transportation of oil by pipeline, and the licensing of hydroelectric power projects. FERC

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Example Sentences

Eight LNG export terminals are in operation, eight are under construction and nine more projects have been approved, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

From Barron's

Mark Christie, former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, last year requested a briefing on the risk of data centers tripping offline at once upon learning it had happened in PJM.

From The Wall Street Journal

The manufacturer’s group has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to shorten the length of pipeline supply contracts to a few years, from more than a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mark Christie, former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said that a few years ago he considered the PJM blackout threat to be on the horizon.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a complaint filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the monitor said PJM should stop admitting new data centers to the grid unless there are enough power plants and transmission lines to serve them.

From The Wall Street Journal