Name:   Searay240 - Subject:   It's not over yet Date:   2/19/2016 12:44:04 PM

Just saw this posted on the FERC website. Hopefully AP will not have to revert back to the old rule curve until the rehearing process is over. 

                                                UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

                               FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

Alabama Power Company                                                                 Project No. 349-185

ORDER GRANTING REHEARINGS FOR

FURTHER CONSIDERATION

(February 16, 2016)

Rehearings have been timely requested of the Commission’s order issued on December 17, 2015, in this proceeding. Alabama Power Company, 153 FERC ¶ 61,298 (2015). In the absence of Commission action within 30 days from the date the rehearing requests were filed, the request for rehearing (and any timely requests for rehearing filed subsequently)^[1] would be deemed denied. 18 C.F.R. § 385.713 (2015).

            In order to afford additional time for consideration of the matters raised or to be raised, rehearing of the Commission’s order is hereby granted for the limited purpose of further consideration, and timely-filed rehearing requests will not be deemed denied by operation of law. Rehearing requests of the above-cited order filed in this proceeding will be addressed in a future order. As provided in 18 C.F.R. § 385.713(d), no answers to the rehearing requests will be entertained.

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,

Deputy Secretary.

[1] See San Diego Gas & Electric Company v. Sellers of Energy and Ancillary Services into Markets Operated by the California Independent System Operator and the California Power Exchange, et al., 95 FERC ¶ 61,173 (2001) (Clarifying that a single tolling order applies to all rehearing requests that were timely filed).