House Plan Would Boost FERC Siting in West Only

摘要

With transmission policy debate focused squarelyrnon the House, sources on and off Capitol Hill said Tuesday that Rep. Jay Inslee is working to gain support for a scaled-back proposal to give FERC expanded authority to site certain new power lines in the West only, an apparent bid to win support from colleagues and others from Eastern states who oppose boosting federal oversight of transmission.rnAnd in another key change apparently designed to win votes, industry sources said Inslee (D-Wash.) appears to have revised earlier language to re-rnpeal authority the Energy Department received in 2005 to designate unpopular National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors (NIETC).