Portland General Electric Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

TATEL, Circuit Judge:

This is a dispute between a small Oregon wind farm and the utility serving Portland over how much of the former’s power the latter must purchase. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled that under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act and the power-purchase agreement between the parties, the utility must purchase all of the wind farm’s power, though it rejected the wind farm’s insistence that the utility do so by utilizing a technology known as dynamic scheduling. Both petition for review, and for the reasons set forth in this opinion, we dismiss the utility’s…