FERC Drowns in Solar and Rate Filing Flood
Published Date: 6/30/2025
Notice
Summary
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission got a bunch of new filings from energy companies like Tilden Solar and Evergy Missouri West. These filings include updates on rates, market power checks, and new authorizations that could affect electricity prices and services starting as soon as May 2025. If you’re involved in energy or just curious, keep an eye out for public comments due in mid-July!
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
Electric rate filings with near-term start dates
The Commission docket lists multiple electric rate filings with specified effective dates that could affect electricity prices and services, including a Public Service Company of Colorado filing effective 2025-05-09 and an Evergy Missouri West tariff update effective 2025-06-25. Other filings show effective dates through 2025-09-01; public comments on many filings are due in mid-July 2025.
Market-rate authorization applications filed
Several companies filed for market-based rate authorization that are listed to be effective 2025-08-24, including Rumble Solar, LLC, Rumble Energy Storage, LLC, and Buena Vista Energy Center III, LLC. These filings are applications for permission to sell at market-based rates starting on the listed effective date.
Deadlines to comment, intervene, or protest
If you want to intervene, protest, or comment on any listed filing, you must file in accordance with Commission rules by 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on the specified comment dates — many are 5 p.m. ET on July 14, July 15, or July 16, 2025. The notice directs interested persons to use eFiling and provides the Commission's Office of Public Participation for assistance.
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