Pointing to 'perverse incentive' under order 1000, FERC’s Glick calls for changes

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's 2011 order meant to promote greater regional transmission development and competition is not working as intended and is worth examining for potential fixes, according to Commissioner Richard Glick. In October 10 remarks at a wind industry conference, Glick said a build-out of transmission to access sun- and wind-rich areas is needed to meet lofty clean and renewable energy goals set by states and the private sector. FERC's Order 1000 tried to get utilities and regions to work better to plan, and presumably, build more of the long-distance transmission needed to carry renewables from remote areas, he said. "The problem with that is I think we've created kind of a perverse incentive under the rulemaking," Glick said at the American Wind Energy Association conference in New York City.