ClimateWire: Whatever other messages the November election sent, it isn’t signaling the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to slow down, FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff says. Wellinghoff was in Portland, Ore., for a smart grid conference last week, pressing his campaign to pay consumers who conserve electricity equally with companies that generate it, and to promote transmission projects that serve wind and solar power. Both issues figure to dominate the commission’s agenda next year. “Quite frankly, FERC is…