12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions · Minor
Affirm that states, not FERC, decide whether to join an RTO
Printed page 405 12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions
“Affirm its commitment that states will decide whether to join an RTO instead of imposing RTOs on regions that do not want them. FERC should also consider allowing states to enter into non-RTO power pools with alternative structures for the sharing of resources and electric generation.”
What has happened
- Not started
No FERC statement affirming that states rather than the Commission decide whether to join an RTO was found, and no order allowing non-RTO power pools with alternative resource-sharing structures. FERC has never ordered a region into an RTO, so the ask is for an affirmation that has not been made.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Covered by the negative search run once for all the FERC and RTO asks.
Adjacent but not this ask, and progress is measured on this ask rather than on an adjacent bill: the House passed H.R. 3628, amending the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act to add a standard on state consideration of reliable generation, 218-207 on 11 December 2025. It is about state consideration of generation reliability, not RTO membership.
FERC orders are not published in the Federal Register, and ferc.gov would not open for us, so any Commission order after the notices cited could not be read.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- FERC authority over state RTO participation
- ID
- 1030