Generate: Snapshots from the new FERC battle

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Oct. 17, 2017

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"Over at Resources For the Future, senior fellow Timothy Brennan says there are ways to try and ensure reliability without funneling more ratepayer cash to financially struggling coal and nuclear plants. Instead, he writes in a new post, regulators could 'treat offers of energy or capacity as binding, subject to meaningful penalties for nonperformance.'"

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Tim Brennan is a senior fellow at RFF. His primary research interests are regulatory economics and competition policy, with applications to the electricity, telecommunications, and postal sectors.

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