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FERC approves consent agenda; highlights include New York ISO compliance, MISO tariff gap and Rover Pipeline blanket certificate
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Summary
At its October 2025 open meeting, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a multi-item consent agenda that included New York ISO second-round Order 2023 compliance, an order remanding a MISO tariff gap tied to the Grain Belt Express, and a blanket certificate for Rover Pipeline LLC; commissioners also previewed a NOPR on gas-electric coordination standards.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday approved a multi-item consent agenda and discussed steps to reduce interconnection delays, clarify regional transmission planning rules and streamline some certificate approvals.
Commissioners approved the consent agenda, which the Secretary listed as electric items E1–E11, gas items G1–G2, hydro item H1 and certificate items C-1–C-3; Commissioner Chang noted his concurrence on G1, Commissioner See noted his concurrence on E3, and Chairman Rosner recorded an aye vote. The Commission cleared the items listed for consideration and thanked staff for recent notational work.
Commissioner comments highlighted several agenda items. Commissioner (name given in transcript as Commissioner See) said item E1 addresses the New York ISO's second round of compliance with Order 2023 and is intended to help reduce interconnection-queue delays; the commissioner said FERC has completed 25 of 41 transmission-provider compliance filings to date. Commissioner See also described E3 as addressing a specific gap in MISO's tariff about how the RTO considers merchant transmission projects such as the Grain Belt Express when weighing relative costs and benefits in transmission planning, and said closing that gap will provide “needed information and transparency into the planning process.”
On certificates, Commissioner See supported granting a blanket certificate to Rover Pipeline LLC (C3), saying the applicant had previously undertaken projects that would have been covered by such a blanket process and that those projects "proceeded without incident or landowner complaints.” He also made clear that granting the blanket certificate does not resolve a separate, open enforcement matter involving the same company.
Commissioner Chang used his remarks to emphasize G1, a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) that proposes three standards relating to gas-electric coordination (the transcript uses the acronym “NASB” in connection with the proposed standards). Chang cited FERC and NERC reports on winter storm operations and urged stakeholders to comment; he recommended improving information sharing “along the chain of entities that physically control or have financial rights to natural gas deliveries starting from the wellhead and ending at the generators or the gas LDCs.”
The meeting also included recognition of long-serving Commission staff. The Chair presented the Chairman’s Exemplar of Public Service Award to Susie Holmes for 37 years of service, including 21 years as an associate general counsel in the Office of General Counsel projects group, and presented the Chairman’s Medal to Anne Marie Hirschberger for 13 years of Commission service, noting her work on interconnection and MISO matters.
The Commission’s consent-vote action clears multiple items for the record. Next procedural steps for matters that received only nods on the consent calendar will follow in the individual dockets (filing deadlines and subsequent orders are set in those dockets).
