Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

How courts have described this case

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• holding that FERC’s approval of an Installed Capacity Requirement was not “direct regulation” of electrical generation facilities and, thus, did not violate section 201 (emphasis added)
• holding that FERC’s approval of an Installed Capacity Requirement was not “direct regulation” of electrical generation facilities and, thus, did not violate section 201 (emphasis added)
• finding FERC could regulate the installed capacity market under its affecting jurisdiction because FERC did not engage in direct regulation of an area subject to exclusive state control
• finding FERC could regulate the installed capacity market under its affecting jurisdiction because FERC did not engage in direct regulation of an area subject to exclusive state control
• “Where capacity decisions about an interconnected bulk power system affect FERC-jurisdictional transmission rates for that system without directly implicating generation facilities, they come within the Commission’s author ity.”
• “Section 201 prohibits the Commission from regulating generation facilities but says nothing about its power to review the capacity requirements that an [ISO] imposes on member [utilities].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).