On April 17, 2008 FERC issued a license that will allow Priest Rapids project on Columbia River to operate until 2048 AD.

FERC has rejected a preliminay permit application filed by Principle Power Hydro for hydropower production from McKenzie River in Lane county, Oregon.

In a recent Environmental Assessment (EA) of Morgan Falls project, FERC has yet again failed to perform a complete analysis of carbon footprint of the project.

A little more than four years after they were first issued, FERC has amended its CEII regulations. The amended regulations (read FERC's final rule or its order on rehearing) have several significant new features.

Oregon Wave Energy Partners, LLC has filed a preliminary permit application for a proposed wave energy project that would be located 3-6 miles offshore in Lincoln County, Oregon. Comments and motions to intervene are due to FERC by February 18, 2007.

Oregon Wave Energy Partners, LLC has filed a preliminary permit application for a proposed wave energy project that would be located 2.5 miles offshore in Coos County, Oregon. Comments and motions to intervene are due to FERC by February 18, 2007. 

FERC has approved a license amendment for the Lake Dorothy project. The amendment authorizes the licensee to excavate a "starter tunnel" during construction that could later be used to further expand the project.

Entergy Arkansas has applied for a license amendment that would allow the construction of a marina and boardwalk at the Carpenter-Remmel project. Comments are due on January 12, 2007.

A license amendment for Erie Boulevard's Lower Raquette River project will increase the project's generating capacity by 50% (from 12 to 18 MW) while converting four dams from peaking generation into run-of-the-river mode, speeding up the license's fish protection and downstream fish passage measures by three years (from 2010 to 2007), and adding upstream eel passage at four dams.

FERC issued a license amendment which increased the authorized capacity of the Sturgeon Falls project to 6.4 MW. The licensee requested the amendment after rehabilitating several turbines that were damaged in December, 2005.