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Senior Texas and West Virginia AGs’ Office Staff Assume New Government Roles

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Texas Deputy First Assistant Attorney General Judge Grant Dorfman has been appointed by Governor Greg Abbott to serve as a judge on Texas’s newly established Eleventh Business Court Division in Houston....more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Energy Law: Week in Review - March 2024 #2

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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

Troutman Pepper

FERC Grants Certificate to Transco’s Texas to Louisiana Energy Pathway Project

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On January 18, 2024, FERC granted a certificate of public convenience and necessity to Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC (“Transco”) to construct and operate the Texas to Louisiana Energy Pathway Project (“Texas to...more

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Texas Updates

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Over the last several months there have been a number of developments within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) region. The most significant have been the issuance of a Joint Blackstart Availability Study and...more

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PUCT Adoption of Changes to Market Participant Qualifications and Reporting Requirements

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In a rulemaking issued April 6, 2023, the Public Utility Commission of Texas (“Commission”) adopted amendments to market participant registration and certification requirements.[1] The Commission’s rule amendments...more

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A Court-Side Seat: An End-of-Year Environmental Update

As 2022 draws to a close, here is a brief description of recent environmental and regulatory law rulings, as well as new federal rulemaking proceedings....more

King & Spalding

FERC is Bearing Down in Its Environmental Justice Reviews of Gas Pipeline and LNG Terminal Applications

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is devoting an increasing amount of attention and staff resources to its consideration of EJ impacts of proposed interstate natural gas pipeline and liquified natural gas...more

Paul Hastings LLP

NERC Issues a Gust of Recommendations in Wake of Panhandle Disturbance

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On August 10, 2022, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (“NERC”) and Texas Reliability Entity (“Texas RE”) published a joint report (the “Report”) documenting the event, providing analysis, and recommending...more

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Lone Star Solar: Challenges and Opportunities in Post-Blackout Texas

Starting in late February, over 2.7 million Texas households were left without energy and over 100 people died as a severe winter storm caused a series of rolling blackouts across Texas, drawing national attention to the...more

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The Texas Blackout: A Regulatory Retrospective and Future Outlook

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The state of Texas, and its isolated power grid, buckled under the weight of persistent cold in February 2021, leading to a historic and widespread blackout. In the immediate aftermath, the human cost of decisions made in the...more

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Regulators to Review Market Design and Reliability Following 2021 Polar Vortex

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Over Presidents’ Day weekend 2021, an unprecedented cold weather event hit the Midwest and South central United States. The storm led to major disruptions to infrastructure throughout the region, including icy road...more

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Polar Vortex Highlights Problems with Texas Isolationist Model and Need for National Electric Grid

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Following a week of extremely cold temperatures which caused millions of Texans to be without power, in some cases for longer that three days, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced that it will be...more

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