Comments on FERC Preliminary Permits for Tidal and Wave Power Due April 15

On February 15, 2007, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued this Notice of Inquiry and Policy Statement on policies governing issuance of preliminary permits for wave and tidal projects. FERC seeks comment on whether its existing system governing issuance of preliminary permits should apply to wave and tidal technologies, whether to retain the existing system with stricter safeguards to prevent sitebanking or whether to eliminate the preliminary permit process entirely.

OREC previously prepared a White Paper on FERC’s permit policy that is available here and details some of the problems with FERC’s existing program. OREC intends to submit comments in response to the rulemaking, so please provide us your thoughts by sending comments below.

Posted by headsetop on March 6th, 2007 filed in FERC Watch