Examples of PURPA Regulations in a sentence
The QF Status of each such electrical generating facility that is a QF has been or will be, by the time such facility begins to generate electric energy, validly obtained through certification or self-certification pursuant to the PURPA Regulations, or certification or self-certification with respect to such QF Status is not required pursuant to 18 C.F.R. § 292.203(d).
Consideration of Competitive Solicitations to Determine Avoided Costs The Commission proposes to revise the PURPA Regulations in 18 CFR § 292.304 to add subsection (b)(8).
As one QF developer testified in a recent South Carolina proceeding,142 See, e.g., Murphy Flat Power, LLC, 141 FERC ¶ 61,145, at ¶ 24 (2012) (holding that requiring a signed and executed contract with an electric utility as a prerequisite to a LEO is inconsistent with PURPA Regulations).
However, as explained above, the Commission is not modifying the requirement in the PURPA Regulations that QFs have the option of fixing their contract capacity rates as of the date of the LEO.
Moreover, although it may have been true at the time the Commission promulgated its PURPA Regulations in 1980 that QFs needed to fix their energy rate for the term of their contract in order to obtain financing of their facilities, there is evidence that this no longer is true.
If parties believe that a state has failed to implement the PURPA Regulations consistent with their terms, then these parties may bring an enforcement petition before the Commission or other fora.73 But just because parties are unsatisfied with some states’ implementation of PURPA to date74 does not preclude the Commission from making the revisions to its PURPA Regulations adopted in the final rule.42.
FERC’s PURPA Regulations In 1980, FERC promulgated rules implementing section 210 of PURPA; these rules are codified at 18 C.F.R. pt.
As a result, there is no question but that the Commission could have imposed a variable energy contract requirement when it promulgated the PURPA Regulations in 1980 instead of requiring fixed energy contract rates.
The only question in this proceeding is whether the Commission has adequately supported its holding in the final rule to change the determination made in 1980 and instead give the states the flexibility to require variable energy contract rates.199 In addition, because the Commission’s revision to the fixed energy rate requirement is based on changed circumstances since the issuance of the PURPA Regulations in 1980, we must provide “a reasoned explanation .
The changes adopted in this final rule result from the need for the PURPA Regulations to continue to comply with the directives Congress established when it enacted PURPA in 1978, and then again when Congress amended PURPA in 2005.