Amid effort to come under FERC jurisdiction, Tri-State announces first non-utility member

摘要

A for-profit wholesale energy services company has become the firstnon-utility member of the Tri-State Generation and TransmissionAssociation, a not-for-profit regional wholesale power supplyassociation that serves more than 40 rural electric distributioncooperatives and public power districts.The move by MIECO, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerateMarubeni, to join Tri-State will bolster the association’s ongoing effortto come under the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission instead of potentially being regulated by the state utilitycommissions of Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and New Mexico.