New National Regulatory Research Institute Paper Challenges FERC to Adopt More Prudent Regulation in the Face of a Changing Energy Landscape
A new paper calls for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to re-assess its long-established theories of regulation. Whither the FERC?: Overcoming the Existential Threat to Its Magic Pricing Formula through Prudent Regulation, by Carl Pechman, PhD, takes a critical look at the agency's ability to adapt to overall industry changes and the evolving nature of utility customers.
Pechman, director of the National Regulatory Research Institute (the research arm of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners), outlines FERC's role in affecting the U.S. economy through its regulation of interstate markets for wholesale electricity. The agency's continued effectiveness and ability to fulfill its responsibility to ensure just and reasonable rates, its capacity to respond to an ever-changing industry and address the needs of the prosumer' are covered. The author deconstructs FERC's magic pricing formula,' which is the foundation of its method of regulation.
'FERC needs to move beyond what the courts have described as its passive' regulatory approach and become a proactive force for decarbonization and customer protection,' said Pechman. 'The paper provides a number of recommendations for ways to accomplish this task, including the adoption of prudent regulation to put FERC on that path.'
'There is much value in this paper for state and federal regulators alike, as well as anyone concerned with the course of energy regulation today and in the future,' said NRRI and NARUC Executive Director Greg R. White. 'It explains why the theory underlying the FERC's regulation of wholesale electric markets -- its magic pricing formula' -- is being rendered obsolete by the changing role of the consumer, advances in technology, and calls for decarbonization.'
Whither the FERC?: Overcoming the Existential Threat to Its Magic Pricing Formula through Prudent Regulation is available for download online at bit.ly/2XPGcnb.
Source: National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
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