ISO-NE fuel security program will　take effect due to lack of FERC quorum

摘要

An ISO New England program to pay resources that keep fuel oranother form of potential energy on hand during the winter will go intoeffect by operation of law because the Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission lacked a quorum to act on the grid operator's proposal.The unusual development was announced by the federal powerregulator in a notice (ER19-1428) on Tuesday. FERC requires at leastthree voting members for a quorum, which suggests that at least twoof the body's four sitting members recused themselves from acting onthe proposal.A FERC spokesman declined to provide additional details aboutwhy the commission lacked a quorum