In comments following up on the Commission’s November 1st conference addressing issues related to the co-location of large loads with generating facilities, EPSA urges FERC to address near-term concerns to facilitate these contracts and, if necessary, to identify longer term more complex concerns or implications that require assessment as well as a proposed avenue to consider those issues.
Date: December 9, 2024
Venue: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Proceeding: Technical Conference on Co-Located Load, Docket AD24-11-000
The Electric Power Supply Association filed comments at FERC to highlight issues which arose at the agency’s November 1st Commissioner-led technical conference addressing generic issues related to the co-location of large loads with generating facilities. EPSA noted that it is critical for the Commission in the near term to address the concerns raised by co-location arrangements and clarify what needs to happen to facilitate these contracts. These co-location arrangements – bilateral supply configurations that support swiftly emerging and important economic and national security facilities – represent the innovation that competitive markets foster and support. Those opportunities should not be thwarted by anti-competitive actions or confusion over the rules of the road.
Importantly, while industry needs clarity and a level of certainty in the short term to facilitate these scenarios (and clear up the confusion created by an array of pending proceedings), that guidance must be flexible enough to avoid erecting barriers to, or discriminating against, co-located load or generation.
