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About FERC - Chairman Jon Wellinghoff
Jon Wellinghoff was named Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the agency that oversees wholesale electric transactions and interstate electric transmission and gas transportation in the United States, by President Barack Obama on March 19, 2009. A member of the ...
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Wellinghoff is a Dangerous Man
The Energy Collective — ... I am now reassured. A career lawyer who has spent 30 years focused on clients from the renewable energy industry has declared that his former and future clients can save the world. All they need is a smart grid that can shape the load to meet what they can provide. ...

Dangerous Delusions
Energy Outlook — ... at least for the next several decades. I am not dismissing the vital contribution of renewables in addressing climate change, or the potential of a smarter electricity grid to accommodate a greater share of generation from renewable sources than would be feasible today. However, while I appreciate the benefits of visionary leadership in moving the country towards those goals, that vision must be grounded in reality, and not skewed by wishful thinking or the ingrained habits of a long career spent in advocacy for renewable energy. ...

Dangerous Delusions
The Energy Collective — ... at least for the next several decades. I am not dismissing the vital contribution of renewables in addressing climate change, or the potential of a smarter electricity grid to accommodate a greater share of generation from renewable sources than would be feasible today. However, while I appreciate the benefits of visionary leadership in moving the country towards those goals, that vision must be grounded in reality, and not skewed by wishful thinking or the ingrained habits of a long career spent in advocacy for renewable energy. ...

Wellinghoff, Adams, Obama; Is Hope Dangerous?
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — ... describes Wellinghoff as a “dangerous man”.  Wellinghoff, an energy law specialist on renewable energy, energy efficiency and distributed generation, seems more hopeful than dangerous, but perhaps this type of enthusiasm, however misguided, is what is needed to get us off our collective asses (or hobby horses) and moving toward a renewable but reliable energy future. ...

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FERC chair on new nuclear and coal plants: “We may not need any, ever.”
climateprogress.org 4/23/2009 — The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Jon Wellinghoff, said today of new coal and nuclear plants, “We may not need any, ever.” Greenwire (subs. req’d) reported his remarks at a U.S. Energy Association forum:  ...
Quote Of The Year: "We may not need any (new nuclear or coal plants), ever..."TreeHugger
Portrait of Jon Wellinghoff. Image credit: FERC Scientific American caught some provocative and wonderful insights from the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Jon Wellinghoff. He thinks it may be possible that new nuclear or coal plants may ever be needed in the United ...
New Coal and Nuclear Plants May Not Be Needed, FERC Chief SaysYale Environment 360
Renewable energy technologies have come far enough that the U.S. may not need to build any new coal or nuclear plants , the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said. “We may not need any, ever,” Jon Wellinghoff said at a forum of the U.S. Energy Association. The development of ...