U.S. Federal Register Update

U.S. Federal Register Update

March 22, 2011 – March 28, 2011

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Items of Interest

Topic Protocol Gas Verification Program and Minimum Competency Requirements for Air Emission Testing

Date-FR-Doc.-Pages 3/28/2011 pp. 17288-17325

Reference API, ASTM, ISO, NIST

Summary EPA is finalizing rule revisions that modify existing requirements for sources affected by the federally administered emission trading programs including the NO X Budget Trading Program, the Acid Rain Program, and the Clean Air Interstate Rule.

Topic Demand Response Compensation in Organized Wholesale Energy Markets

Date-FR-Doc.-Pages 3/24/2011 pp. 16658-16682

Reference ACC, AFPA, ASSE, AWEA, NERC, FERC

Summary In this Final Rule, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission amends its regulations under the Federal Power Act to ensure that when a demand response resource participating in an organized wholesale energy market administered by a Regional Transmission Organization or Independent System Operator has the capability to balance supply and demand as an alternative to a generation resource and when dispatch of that demand response resource is cost-effective as determined by the net benefits test described in this rule, that demand response resource must be compensated for the service it provides to the energy market at the market price for energy, referred to as the locational marginal price.