12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions · Notable
Prevent socializing transmission costs onto customers who do not benefit
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“Prevent socializing costs for customers who do not benefit from the projects or justifying such cost shifts as advancing vague “societal benefits” such as climate change.”
What has happened
- Not started
FERC left the Order No. 1920 cost-allocation framework standing in Order No. 1920-B, including the regional benefit measures the Quote objects to. No rule or order preventing the socialisation of transmission costs onto customers who do not benefit, and no repudiation of societal-benefit justifications, was found.
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 transmission asks.
CourtListener caveat: FERC transmission litigation falls inside a known gap in the federal court dockets (CourtListener) we search, so the absence of a case there is unknown rather than negative. CourtListener’s bulk docket snapshot was searched instead and produced nothing that changes this reading.
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 transmission cost allocation
- ID
- 1032