Wow. PJM's rehearing request: FERC's order "does not maintain the careful balance followed by prior FERC orders and, in fact, disrupts the balance that has successfully worked to accommodate the interests of states and integrated utilities" elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/file_lis…
FERC's "pursuit of greater market efficiency as communicated in the order may have paradoxically unintended consequences over time and may result in less economic efficiency."
"The December 19 Order is in marked contrast from the Commission’s past rationale used for the MOPR...That new approach is over-broad and over-prescriptive and will dramatically curtail new resource options for integrated utilities"
"The December 19 Order therefore creates a needless tension, pitting an expansive reading of the Commission’s authority against the realities of the need to recognize the nature of cooperative federalism that underpins administration of the Federal Power Act."
PJM asks FERC to re-institute broad exemptions for self-supply, energy efficiency, facilities whose primary purpose isnt power generation, and voluntary REC sales.
