FERC Meeting Agenda Summaries for February 2026
Below are brief summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC or the Commission) open meeting to be held on February 19, at 10:00 a.m. ET.
The summaries below are based on publicly available information in the dockets listed on the FERC agenda at the time of publication. For ease of reference, a link to each lead docket on the meeting agenda has been included. The Commission may decide to remove any items from the meeting agenda at any time.
Item No. | DocketNo. | Company |
Administrative | ||
A - 1 | AD26-1-000 | Agency Administrative Matters |
A - 2 | AD26-2-000 | Customer Matters, Reliability, Security, and Market Operations |
Electric | ||
E - 1 | EC25-43-001 | Constellation Energy Corporation, Constellation Energy Generation, LLC, and Calpine Corporation
On August 22, 2025, the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate (PA OCA) sought rehearing of FERC’s July 23, 2025, Order authorizing Constellation’s acquisition of Calpine, alleging among other things that FERC did not properly review the impact of the proposed transaction on the wholesale electric market in Pennsylvania. On August 22, 2025, FERC denied PA OCA’s request for rehearing by operation of law. On December 1, 2025, PA OCA petitioned for review with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Agenda item E-1 may be an order on PA OCA’s request for rehearing. |
E - 2 | EL10-56-000 | Western Electricity Coordinating Council
On July 15, 2025, FERC instituted an investigation under Section 206 of the Federal Power Act into whether FERC should eliminate Western Electricity Coordinating Council’s soft price cap, established a refund effective date, and extended the deadline for any cost justification filings that may be required for above-cap sales until after FERC issues an order on the investigation.
Agenda item E-2 may be an order on the investigation. |
E - 3 | EL26-25-000 | Stay Ready Solar 1 Inc., Stay Ready Solar 2 Inc., and Stay Ready Solar 3 Inc. v. Entergy New Orleans, Inc.
On November 13, 2025, Stay Ready Solar 1 Inc., Stay Ready Solar 2 Inc., and Stay Ready Solar 3 Inc. (Complainants), three Louisiana nonprofit corporations developing community solar generating facilities in New Orleans that will export energy onto Entergy New Orleans’ distribution system, filed a complaint against Entergy New Orleans. The complaint alleges that Entergy New Orleans failed to initiate or perform a system impact study after accepting payment and executing the relevant agreement, refused to allow the option to build, failed to evaluate alternative feasible points of interconnection and provide technical justification for rejection, and imposed nontransparent upgrade requirements without an engineering explanation. The Complainants allege that these actions constitute constructive denial of interconnection service and undue discrimination under the FPA.
Agenda item E-3 may be an order on the complaint. |
E - 4 | Branch Street Solar Partners, LLC Picture Rocks Solar, LLC Sol Orchard San Diego21, LLC Sol Orchard San Diego22, LLC Sol Orchard San Diego23, LLC Sol Orchard San Diego20, LLC Klamath Falls Solar 2, LLC
On June 26, 2025, the Commission issued an order requiring multiple facilities that had been self-certified as Qualifying Facilities (QF) under the Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act (PURPA) to issue refunds for the approximately six-month to one-year period of time between the occurrence of a material change in facts and the date a self-recertification of QF status was filed. The Commission found that when a material change occurs, the facility’s certification of QF status may no longer be relied upon until such time that recertification is filed. The owner of the QFs filed a request for rehearing of the order.
Agenda item E-4 may be an order on rehearing. | |
E - 5 | Great Bend Solar, LLC
On December 4, 2025, Great Bend Solar, LLC (Great Bend) filed a request for waiver of the Commission’s open access transmission tariff (OATT) and related open access policies with respect to the limited period of time that Great Bend intends to own certain Interconnected Transmission Owner Attachment Facilities and Direct Connection Network Upgrades (TOIF) and certain limited and discrete Customer Interconnection Facilities that Great Bend will continue to own after the TOIF are transferred to the transmission owning utility.
Agenda item E-5 may be an order on Great Bend’s request. | |
E - 6 | North American Electric Reliability Corporation
On November 4, 2025, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) filed three separate petitions to approve proposed reliability standards: (1) Reliability Standard MOD-032-2 – Data for Power System Modeling and Analysis, Reliability Standard IRO-010-6 – Reliability Coordinator Data and Information Specification and Collection, and Reliability Standard TOP-003-8 – Transmission Operator and Balancing Authority Data and Information Specification and Collection; (2) Reliability Standard MOD-033-3 – Steady-State and Dynamic System Model Validation; and (3) Reliability Standard MOD-026-2 – Verification and Validation of Dynamic Models and Data along with proposed definitions of the terms Model Verification and Model Validation for inclusion in the Glossary of Terms used in NERC Reliability Standards.
Agenda item E-6 may be an order on NERC’s three petitions. | |
(not consolidated) | ||
E - 7 | ER21-64-002 | Macquarie Energy LLC
On October 7, 2020, Macquarie Energy LLC (Macquarie), a power marketer, submitted a justification for spot sales in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) region exceeding the “soft cap” of $1,000/MWh during August 2020. On May 20, 2022, the Commission issued an order on the justification concluding that Macquarie was justified in making the August 2020 spot market sales at the relevant average index price but was not justified in certain other sales and directed Macquarie to refund the premiums. Both Macquarie and intervenor California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) filed requests for rehearing. On July 15, 2022, Macquarie filed its refund report. On July 22, 2022, the Commission denied the request for rehearing by operation of law. On July 22, 2022, the CPUC filed a Petition for Review in the D.C. Circuit (No. 22-1168). That case was consolidated with Macquarie’s petition for review. On October 20, 2022, the Commission issued its rehearing order, providing reasoning for denying rehearing. On July 27, 2023, the CPUC again filed a Petition for Review in the D.C. Circuit, seeking review of the Justification Order and the Rehearing Order.
Agenda item E-7 may be an order on Macquarie’s refunds. |
E - 8 | ER21-2649-002 | Macquarie EnergyLLC
On August 6, 2021, Macquarie submitted an explanation for its bilateral spot sales in the WECC region exceeding the “soft cap” of $1,000/MWh during June and July 2021. On December 2, 2022, the Commission issued an order on the justification, concluding that Macquarie justified making four identified June 2021 spot market sales up to the relevant index price, but it did not justify the amounts above the index price for two of those sales. The Commission also found that Macquarie did not justify making two identified July 2021 sales at prices above the soft price cap. The Commission directed Macquarie to refund the amounts above the index price for two June 2021 sales and amounts above the soft price cap for the July 2021 sales and file a refund report. On December 30, 2022, Macquarie filed a request for rehearing. The Commission denied the request for rehearing, but nonetheless modified its Justification Order, sustaining the result. Macquarie filed its refund report on February 3, 2023.
Agenda item E-8 may be an order on Macquarie’s refunds. |
E - 9 | ER21-2459-002 | Tenaska PowerServices Co.
On July 19, 2021, Tenaska Power Services Co. (Tenaska), a power marketer, submitted a justification for spot sales in the WECC region exceeding the “soft cap” of $1,000/MWh during June 2021. On December 16, 2022, the Commission issued an order on the justification, concluding that Tenaska was justified in making the June 2021 spot market sales at the relevant average index price but was not justified in the premiums added to the index price. The Commission directed Tenaska to refund the premiums. On January 13, 2023, Tenaska filed a request for rehearing. On February 13, 2023, the Commission denied the request for rehearing by operation of law. On February 15, 2023, Tenaska filed its refund report. On March 17, 2023, the Commission issued its rehearing order, providing reasoning for denying rehearing. On April 19, 2023, Tenaska filed a Petition for Review in the D.C. Circuit (No. 23-1101).
Agenda item E-9 may be an order on Tenaska’s refunds. |
E - 10 | ER21-2382-002 | Shell Energy North America (US), L.P.
On July 8, 2021, Shell Energy North America (U.S.), L.P. (Shell Energy) submitted a justification for a spot sale in the WECC region exceeding the “soft cap” of $1,000/MWh during July 2021. On March 29, 2023, the Commission issued an order on the justification, finding that Shell Energy was justified in making the June 2021 spot market sale at the relevant average index price but was not justified in the premium added to the index price and directed Shell Energy to refund the premium. On May 5, 2023, Shell Energy filed its refund report. On May 30, 2023, Shell Energy filed a Petition for Review in the Fifth Circuit seeking review of the Justification Order.
On June 30, 2023, the Commission issued its rehearing order, providing reasoning for denying rehearing. On July 11, 2023, Shell Energy filed a Petition for Review in the Fifth Circuit seeking review of both the justification order and the rehearing order, and consolidation with its previously filed petition.
Agenda item E-10 may be an order on Shell Energy’s refunds. |
Gas | ||
G - 1 | PL23-1-000 | Oil Pipeline Affiliate Committed Service
On December 16, 2022, the Commission issued a proposed policy statement revising its policy for evaluating whether contractual committed transportation service complies with the Interstate Commerce Act where the only shipper to obtain the contractual committed service is the pipeline’s affiliate (the Proposed Policy Statement for Oil Pipeline Affiliate Committed Service).
Agenda item G-1 may be an order on the proposed policy. |
G - 2 | RP25-1189-000 | Baltimore Gas and Electric Company v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC
On January 11, 2023, in Docket No. CP21-94-000, the Commission granted to Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC (Transco), pursuant to NGA Section 7(c), a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct facilities and render Regional Energy Access Expansion (REA) service to those customers, including Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, an Exelon Company (BGE), that subscribed for such service with an initial certificate recourse rate of 50 cents per Dekatherm. On February 13, 2023, BGE and Transco entered into an REA Firm Service Agreement. On September 29, 2025, BGE filed a complaint against Transco seeking an adjustment to its negotiated rate pursuant to the service agreement for the Project.
Agenda item G-2 may be an order on BGE’s Complaint. |
G - 3 | RP25-966-000 | Jay-Bee Production Company v. Texas Gas Transmission, LLC
On July 1, 2025, Texas Eastern Transmission, LP (Texas Eastern) submitted for filing, as part of its FERC Gas Tariff Statements of Negotiated Rates, certain tariff records to be effective on July 1, 2025. The tariff records reflect negotiated rate transactions that Texas Eastern has entered into with various customers for firm transportation service under Texas Eastern’s Rate Schedule FT-1. On July 21, 2025, FERC accepted the tariff records.
Agenda item G-3 may be a further order on Texas Eastern’s submittal. |
Hydro | ||
H - 1 | RM26-7-000 | Agenda item H-1 may be a new rulemaking proceeding regarding Categorical Exclusion under the National Environmental Policy Act for Certain Terminations or Revocations of Water Power Licenses or Exemptions. |
H - 2 | CX26-1-000 | Agenda item H-2 may be a new proceeding regarding the adoption of Categorical Exclusions from Tennessee Valley Authority under the National Environmental Policy Act. |
H - 3 | P-6055-008 | Jeffersonville Hydroelectric Company, Inc.
On January 3, 2023, Jeffersonville Hydroelectric Company, Inc. (Jeffersonville) submitted an application to surrender its small hydropower exemption from licensing for Project No. 6055 (the Project) located in Sullivan County, New York, at Lake Jefferson Dam. The Commission issued a Compliance Order for the Project on October 26, 2018, and Jeffersonville ultimately determined that operation of the Project was no longer feasible. The application to surrender the exemption proposed no major modifications to the existing dam, buildings, or structures that are part of the Project. An Environmental Assessment was completed on November 6, 2024. On July 21, 2025, Jeffersonville submitted its executed Land Access License Agreement with American Rivers giving American Rivers and associated persons the right to access the property for the purpose of removing the dam and spillway, as well as the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Order on Consent.
Agenda item H-3 may be an order on Jeffersonville’s application to surrender its exemption. |
H - 4 | P-5698-025 | Triton PowerCompany
On July 31, 2025, Triton Power Company (Triton), currently owned by ReNew Hydro NY1, LLC (ReNew), filed a Final License Application (FLA) to relicense Project No. 5698, the Chateaugay High Falls Hydroelectric Project (Project), located on the Chateaugay River, in Franklin County, New York. The Commission rejected the FLA on October 7, 2025, and ReNew, on behalf of Triton, filed a request for reconsideration or rehearing on November 6, 2025, which committed to providing monthly progress reports to demonstrate progress toward resolution of the FLA deficiencies the Commission identified. Triton submitted Progress Reports in November and December 2025 and submitted a plan and schedule to develop a license surrender application on January 6, 2026. On January 16, 2026, the Commission issued a Notice of Authorization for Continued Project Operation that the Project may operate under an annual license, until December 31, 2026. Triton submitted its third Progress Report on January 29, 2026.
Agenda item H-4 may be an order on Triton’s request for reconsideration or rehearing. |
Certificates | ||
C - 1 | CP25-495-000 | National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation
On May 20, 2025, National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation (National Fuel) submitted an application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity authorizing a proposed modified reservoir and buffer boundaries of its Beech Hill Storage Field and authority to use Well 7451 as a storage well, consistent with National Fuel’s 2017 Beech Hill Storage Gas Containment and Management Plan.
Agenda item C-1 may be an order on this application. |
C - 2 | RM25-9-001 | Removal of Regulations Limiting Authorizations To Proceed With Construction Activities Pending Rehearing
On November 6, 2025, a group of public interest organizations, including Natural Resources Defense Council, filed a request for rehearing of the Commission’s October 7, 2025, rulemaking, Removal of Regulations Limiting Authorizations to Proceed with Construction Activities Pending Rehearing, arguing that the rulemaking violates the Administrative Procedure Act.
Agenda item C-2 may be an order on the request for rehearing. |
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