Commissioner Wellinghoff Publishes Article On FERC Regulatory Process for Marine Renewables

FERC Commissioner Wellinghoff published an article in the Energy Bar Journal (Nov. 2008) on FERC’s regulatory process for marine renewables and describes FERC’s efforts to develop innovative and creative approaches to spur marine renewables development. The article is extremely comprehensive, giving a detailed overview of FERC’s past policies and a peek into where FERC might head in the future.  Plus, footnote 69 references OREC’s White Paper on Preliminary Permits, acknowleging that this paper helped bring to FERC’s attention some of the problems in FERC’s permit process.   Some of the problems have since been addressed or at least identified through FERC’s strict scrutiny policy.