WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement on Feb. 15, 2024, by Commissioner Mark C. Christie on a decision (Docket No. EL23-101-000) involving Mid-Atlantic Offshore Development LLC.: * * * I concur with today's order for two basic reasons: First, while I have repeatedly called for reforming the Commission's practice of awarding incentives to transmission developers in seeming "check the box" exercises,[1] the cost  more