FERC Facts
Name of the current FERC Chairman
Who is Willie Phillips?
The hours from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. are referred to by grid operators as having this type of load
What is "peak" load?
The letters RTO stand for this
What is a Regional Transmission Organization?
The rate schedule and terms and conditions of a utility or RTO is known as this
What is a tariff?
This New Deal agency provides electricity to ten million people in Tennessee and the surrounding states
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
What FERC was known as prior to 1977
What is the FPC (Federal Power Commission)?
The three grids in the continental US are the Western Interconnect, the Eastern Interconnect, and this Texas-based entity
What is ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)?
Natural gas is primarily made of this molecule
What is methane (CH4)?
An electrical device that changes the voltage of an alternating current
What is a transformer?
This law was passed by Jimmy Carter in response to the 1973 energy crisis
What is the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA)?
Order that unbundled generation from transmission and distribution to introduce competition into wholesale markets
What is Order 888?
The first commercial central power plant in the US, established in 1882
What is the Pearl Street Station?
The entity that is in charge of ensuring the reliability of the bulk power system in North America
What is NERC (North American Electric Reliability Corporation)?
The unit used to measure electric potential
What is a volt?
This RTO is currently trying to expand its footprint from the Eastern Interconnection into the Western Interconnection
What is the Southwest Power Pool (SPP)?
The office that issues notices of all filings made with the Commission
What is OSEC (Office of the Secretary)?
Country with the highest proportion of electric generation coming from nuclear power at 68%
What is France?
Agency that is currently working on a rule to restrict power plant emissions
What is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)?
The trading of futures contracts in order to protect against price fluctuations is known as this
What is hedging?
The current chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Who is Tom Carper?
Commissioners need to be nominated by the President and then confirmed by this body
What is the Senate?
This Chicago businessman is credited with creating the model of the natural monopoly utility
Who is Samuel Insull?
This country received the most LNG exports from the US in 2022 at more than 2 trillion cubic feet
What is Mexico?
The movement of electricity from one system to another via transmission facilities of a third party system
What is wheeling/wheeling service?
The name of the 525 kV transmission line that broke ground in New Mexico in September 2023
What is the SunZia line?