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Energy Law: Month in Review - September 2024

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Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Month in Review. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments in the previous month. ...more

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CAISO Interconnection Process Enhancements Face FERC Protest

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CAISO’s Interconnection Process Enhancements proposal faces protest at FERC from independent power producers, clean energy organizations, and renewable energy developers.  Challengers claim that CAISO’s scoring criteria...more

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FERC Boosts Opportunities for Transmission Development with Approval of CAISO Subscriber Participating Transmission Owner Model

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently approved an innovative new method to help unlock merchant transmission development in the Western United States. The new subscriber participating transmission owner...more

Stoel Rives - Renewable + Law

Stakeholders Express Concern That CAISO’s Interconnection Scoring Criteria May Prioritize Load-Serving Entity Selection

The California Independent System Operator’s (CAISO) recently issued Interconnection Process Enhancements (IPE) final proposal provides heightened requirements to complete an interconnection request and relies on scoring...more

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CAISO Releases Interconnection Process Enhancements Final Proposal

On March 29, 2024, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) released the Track 2 final proposal for its Interconnection Process Enhancements (IPE) initiative. The proposed changes in the IPE proposal aim to address...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

NYISO Pushes Back Anticipated Compliance, Cluster Study Dates After FERC Order No. 2023-A

Interconnection reform is coming to New York State—right on (a slightly revised) schedule. In response to the issuance of a rehearing and clarification order on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) Order No. 2023...more

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Energy Law: Week in Review - March 2024

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Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Week in Review. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments from the previous week....more

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How Recent FERC Orders Are Regulating Electric Storage, QFs, and Inverter-Based Resources

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Regulatory developments include FERC’s orders on electric storage resources participating in the wholesale markets, qualifying facility eligibility, and reliability rules for inverter-based resources....more

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FERC Takes a New Step in Its Heightened Scrutiny Over What Constitutes Control of a Public Utility

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On Dec. 19, 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) seeking comments on whether it should revise its policy on providing blanket authorizations under Section 203(a)(2) of the...more

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FERC Initiates New Proceeding to Review Its Policy on Federal Power Act Section 203(a)(2) Blanket Authorizations, Posing Potential...

On December 19, 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) to request public comments on questions relating to FERC’s current policy on providing blanket authorizations for the...more

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FERC Issues 2023 Enforcement Report

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On 16 November 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC or Commission) Office of Enforcement (Enforcement) released its 2023 Annual Report on Enforcement (FY2023 Report). The FY2023 Report is the 8th annual...more

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FERC Staff Issues Winter Reliability Assessment Report

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On November 16, 2023, FERC staff issued the 2023-2024 Winter Energy Market and Electric Reliability Assessment report, projecting trends and identifying considerations for energy markets and electric reliability for the...more

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2023 FERC Enforcement Report: Continued Focus on Fraud, Manipulation, Market Integrity

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) has released its annual report on enforcement for fiscal year 2023. As in fiscal year 2022, FERC’s Office of Enforcement (OE) focused on matters involving fraud...more

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Estimating Counterfactual Prices in Energy Markets

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The use of factual/counterfactual comparisons—that is, estimating the difference between what actually happened and what would have happened absent an event—is a fundamental tool in the economists’ work box in the context of...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

NYISO Previews Order 2023 Compliance Filing at First Meeting of Interconnection Issues Task Force

The NYISO unveiled the framework of its proposed compliance filing for FERC Order No. 2023 (184 FERC ¶ 61,054) to market participants last week at the first meeting of its newly established Interconnection Issues Task Force...more

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Distributed Generation 2.0: What You Need to Know

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As expanded opportunities such as tax incentives continue to impact the landscape, it is important to understand the fundamentals – such as the players, their roles, and their relative risk profiles. In this video, Troutman...more

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In Blow to Renewables, Ninth Circuit Mostly Upholds FERC's PURPA Reforms

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Sept. 5, 2023, issued a critical ruling upholding certain reforms the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued in 2020 to its regulations implementing the federal...more

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Troutman Pepper Summary of FERC Order No. 2023 on Generator Interconnection Reform

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On July 28, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) issued Order No. 2023 (Order No. 2023 or Final Rule), which updates the procedures for interconnecting large generating facilities (20MW and above)...more

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Summary of Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Hearing on FERC Oversight

On May 4, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing titled “Hearing to Conduct Oversight of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.” This alert provides a high-level summary of the discussion....more

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FERC Accepts PJM Capacity Market Revisions to Locational Deliverability Area Reliability Requirement, Sparks Strong Dissent from...

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On February 21, 2023, FERC accepted PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.’s (“PJM”) proposed tariff revisions governing the Locational Deliverability Area Reliability Requirement (“LDA Reliability Requirement”) calculation, effective...more

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FERC Partially Accepts ISO-NE Order No. 2222 Compliance Filing, but Expresses Concern that Proposal Could Create Undue Barrier to...

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On March 1, 2023, FERC partially approved ISO New England’s (“ISO-NE”) proposed tariff revisions in compliance with Order No. 2222, which removed barriers to the participation of distributed energy resource (“DER”)...more

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Storage Participation in Wholesale Markets

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Regulatory developments include FERC’s orders on electric storage resources participating in the wholesale markets, qualifying facility eligibility, and reliability rules for inverter-based resources....more

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On Rehearing, FERC Upholds Jurisdiction over AECI Emergency Energy Transactions in SPP Market During Winter Storm Uri

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On January 19, 2023, FERC issued an order upholding its decision to exercise primary jurisdiction over emergency energy sales between Southwest Power Pool, Inc. (“SPP”) and Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc. (“AECI”)...more

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FERC Approves PJM Interconnection Process Reforms to Address Backlog

On November 29, 2022, FERC issued an order approving a proposal by PJM to reform its interconnection procedures to enable it to process new interconnection requests more efficiently. The PJM reforms represent one of several...more

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This Week’s Climate Policy Update - December 2022 #2

[co-author: Leila Fleming] As a final effort to pass his permitting reform, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) released a new iteration of the bill with concessions on expanded authority to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission....more

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