EL26-71-000 · 2026-08-14 · FERC

Order Granting Rescission and Abeyance Requests (rescinds the order as to the Six Cities and WAPA)

Topics in the text: Filing procedure · Cost allocation · Connecting load and generation

What the document says

Unpaginated filing

Five of six cases go into 90-day abeyance; responses are due November 16.

Therefore, responses to the Show Cause Order will be due on November 16, 2026, and answers to responses will be due on December 16, 2026. Source text

Unpaginated filing

A timely section 205 filing suspends that respondent's duty to answer the show-cause order.

then the obligation of the respondent(s) who have made such an FPA section 205 filing to file a response to the Show Cause Order will be suspended Source text

Unpaginated filing

FERC granted abeyance because each movant described its coming filing and named a filing date.

CAISO, DCRT, and the Joint PTOs have provided robust descriptions of the FPA section 205 filings they anticipate making by November 16, 2026 Source text

Unpaginated filing

FERC invites each respondent to say which tariff revisions justify ending the show-cause case.

we encourage CAISO and/or Participating Transmission Owners to explain, with specificity, which of their proposed Tariff revisions they believe resolve all or some of the Commission’s preliminary findings in the Show Cause Order Source text

Unpaginated filing

FERC rescinds the CAISO show-cause order for the Six Cities and WAPA.

the Show Cause Order is rescinded as against each of the Six Cities and WAPA and the caption of the proceeding has been amended to reflect their removal from the proceeding Source text

Unpaginated filing

FERC rescinds the CAISO show-cause order for the Six Cities and WAPA.

Six Cities and WAPA, as utilities exempt from Commission jurisdiction under FPA section 201(f), have requested to be removed from this proceeding Source text

Unpaginated filing

Rescission rests on their promise to coordinate with CAISO and file any TO tariff changes needed.

Both Six Cities and WAPA have confirmed that they will continue to coordinate and cooperate with CAISO in responding to the Show Cause Order and will file with the Commission any proposed revisions to their respective TO Tariffs Source text

Responses and related views

Six municipal owners and WAPA distinguished themselves from investor-owned utilities

Six Cities and Western Area Power Administration · Related public statement

These public owners committed to coordinate with CAISO and file changes if necessary. FERC rescinded the show cause order as to them; the other California respondents remained in the case.

Commission determination on Six Cities and WAPA (unpaginated)

Source sections

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Opening text

opening text · Topic match: Filing procedure

In this order, we grant the Abeyance Motions and hold this proceeding in abeyance for 90 days.
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Footnotes

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EL26-71-000 (issued Aug. 4, 2026). [fn:19] Six Cities Motion for Rescission at 4; WAPA Motion for Rescission at 4. [fn:20] Show Cause Order, 195 FERC ¶ 61,214 at P 35. [fn:21] Id. [fn:22] CAISO Abeyance Motion at 4-7. [fn:23] Joint PTOs Abeyance Motion at 3-7. [fn:24] DCRT Abeyance Motion at 4-14.…
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