FERC Regulation of Banks Proposing to Qualify as Power Marketers

Increasingly, U.S. and foreign banking organizations are seeking to participate more broadly and effectively in all types of U.S. energy and commodity derivative markets. Reflecting these developments, banking organizations have been taking steps to expand their ability to participate in customer-driven physically-settled electricity-related derivative transactions, which, from the perspective of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, require that these banking organizations qualify as so-called “power marketers” and comply with applicable provisions of the Federal Power Act and related legislation.

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