Categories: News

The Price is Right? Demand response on appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court recently heard legal arguments on the fate of FERC Order 745, one of the most highly contested cases on electric utility regulation to come before the High Court in years, if not decades. Order 745 is the controversial ruling, issued in March 2011 by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in which FERC decided to treat the resource of demand response as if it were the same as generated power. The case raises issues concerning the nature of and differences between retail and wholesale electric service: what is physical, what is financial, what is energy, what is capacity, and how risk, incentives, and operational limits should govern the business of providing electric utility service. In a new Public Utilities Fortnightly article, SPEER’s CEO, Bob King, helps to provide answers to these and other questions.

Read the full article: Public Utilities Fortnightly, “The Price is Right?” December 2015

admin

Recent Posts

2030 Energy Code Update

2030 seems like a long time from now, but it’s only 48 short months away.…

4 weeks ago

Energy Efficiency: Texas’ Most Powerful Tool for Grid Resilience

It would be easy to say that the Texas grid once again dodged a bullet…

2 months ago

New Benefit for SPEER Members: AESP Inclusive Enterprises Directory

    BIG NEWS FOR SPEER MEMBERS: SPEER is proud to announce that we're partnering…

4 months ago

Energy Efficiency as a First Line of Defense Against Extreme Heat in Texas

By SPEER Intern, Vaishnavi Kharade Heat as a Public Health Crisis Texas summers have always…

5 months ago

SPEER’s Summer Efficiency Tips

  As summer continues blazing onward in SPEER's territory, we've assembled a list of energy…

7 months ago

More Than Efficiency: How ITAC’s Infrastructure Assessments Will Promote Public Health

By SPEER Intern, Vaishnavi Kharade Introduction: Bridging Infrastructure and Health When we think of public…

9 months ago

This website uses cookies.