Date filed: June 5, 2023
Docket: Case No. 22-3176, et al., consolidated
Venue: US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Summary:
EPSA and P3 filed their joint reply brief in the appeals at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit of FERC’s orders on PJM’s Operating Reserves Demand Curve (ORDC). The reply brief emphasizes arguments from the joint opening brief that then-Chairman Rich Glick’s unilateral directive that FERC’s lawyers seek voluntary remand of this issue exceeded his statutory authority because, by statute, actions of the Commission must be taken only upon a majority vote of a quorum of Commissioners. Further, if the Commission wishes to change a previous majority decision, there is a statutory mechanism to do so—but, by design, it imposes a heavy substantive burden that the Commission did not meet in the instant matter. In addition, EPSA and P3 contend that FERC’s orders are arbitrary and capricious on multiple independent grounds.
