On February 14, 2011, FERC issued an order to show cause (the “Order”) to Moussa I. Kourouma, d/b/a Quntum Energy LLM (“Quntum”) for alleged violations of the Commission’s regulations. 

At the February 17, 2011 meeting, FERC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) on compensation for regulation service and a Notice of Inquiry (“NOI”) seeking comment on locational exchanges for wholesale power.

On February 14, 2011, FERC issued an order directing staff to initiate an inquiry into outages and disruptions of service in Texas and the Southwest in early February 2011 (the “Order”). 

On February 14, 2011, the Commission submitted their Fiscal Year (“FY”) 2012 Budget Request for $304,600,000.  The budget request represents a 2.8 percent increase over the 2010 actualized numbers, and that amount equals $8,303,000.  The oil industry is the one industry to show a decrease in the Commission budget allotment, and it dropped by 0.6 percent or $7,656,000 for FY 2012. 

On February 1, 2011, PJM Power Providers Group (“P3”), an association of 12 energy suppliers in the PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”) region, filed a complaint against PJM at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”).

On January 31, 2011, several parties submitted formal protest to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”) opposing the Atlantic Wind Connection (“AWC”) project request for incentive rate treatment which included a 13.58 percent return on equity (“ROE”).

On January 31, 2011, FERC approved new demand response products for PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”) through two separate orders that accepted revisions to the PJM open access transmission tariff (“OATT”).