Document ID: FERC-2020-0949-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Inviting Post-Technical Conference Comments: Impacts of COVID-19 on the Energy Industry
Posted Date: 2020-07-22T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 141 (Wednesday, July 22, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 44296]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-15867]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. AD20-17-000]

Impacts of COVID-19 on the Energy Industry; Notice Inviting Post-
Technical Conference Comments

    On July 8 and 9, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
convened a Commissioner-led technical conference to discuss the 
ongoing, serious impacts that the emergency conditions caused by COVID-
19 are having on various segments of the United States' energy 
industry. During the conference, the Commission explored the potential 
longer-term impacts on the entities that it regulates in order to 
ensure the continued efficient functioning of energy markets, 
transmission of electricity, transportation of natural gas and oil, and 
reliable operation of energy infrastructure today and in the future, 
while also protecting consumers.
    All interested persons are invited to file post-technical 
conference comments on any or all of the topics discussed at the July 
8-9 technical conference. Commenters may also respond to the questions 
outlined in the July 1, 2020 supplemental notice of technical 
conference.\1\ Commenters need not answer all of the questions included 
in the July 1, 2020 notice, but, to the extent that commenters respond 
to any of these questions, please utilize the question numbering 
included in that notice. Comments must be submitted on or before 45 
days from the date of this notice.
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    \1\ See Supplemental Notice of Technical Conference, Docket No. 
AD20-17-000 (July 1, 2020).
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    For more information about this notice, please contact:
Aileen Roder (Technical Information), Office of Energy Policy and 
Innovation, (202) 502-6735, aileen.roder@ferc.gov
Zeny Magos (Technical Information), Office of Energy Market Regulation, 
(202) 502-8244, zeny.magos@ferc.gov

    Dated: July 16, 2020.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-15867 Filed 7-21-20; 8:45 am]
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