FERC
Allison Clements is a Commissioner for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
I've been at FERC for about six months now. Many of you know my colleague, Chairman Rich Glick, and also the role of the Commission, which is to ensure customer protection and reliability on the electricity grid, as well as some responsibilities under The Natural Gas Act.
My priority is to ensure FERC protects those grid customers and does ensure reliability, while at the same time, we try to remove barriers to the massive opportunity that this changing market around us is presenting.
We know that federal, state, and local policy, electric utility commitments, customer expectations, and technological advancements are prompting an unprecedentedly swift transformation of the system that's been static from generation resource mix, but also of the way energy systems operate and interact.
What does FERC do? For me, this translates into ensuring that we have transmission and interconnection policies that spur sufficient but cost-effective infrastructure to support the resources coming online.
Second, is to make market improvements so that electricity and energy markets are providing accurate price signals to support a reliable and cost-effective teacher with a new resource mix that performs when needed.