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Ofgem Approves Great Britain’s Grid Connections Reform

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The reform aims to prioritise “ready” and “needed” projects for grid connection. On 15 April 2025, the energy regulator for Great Britain, Ofgem, made its final decision to reform the electricity grid connection process,...more

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AI, Data Centers and Electric Energy

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AI driven electric demand is forcing utilities to rethink their approach to connecting new data center customers to the grid. Until quite recently, many utilities had generating capacity to sell and competed for new...more

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FERC issues orders expanding organized markets in the Southeast and the Southwest

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) recently issued two orders approving proposals to expand the organized electric markets. The first order, related to a proposal from a coalition of transmission-owning...more

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FERC's Co-Location Conundrum: Balancing Grid Reliability with Data Center Development as PJM's Tariff Faces Scrutiny

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FERC's Order Signals Transformative Change While Navigating Jurisdictional Limits: While FERC recognizes the urgent need to address co-location arrangements (particularly given the AI/data center boom), the intricate...more

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FERC Approves SPP’s RTO West Plan to Connect Eastern and Western Grids

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On March 30, 2025, FERC approved revisions to Southwest Power Pool, Inc.’s (“SPP”) Open Access Transmission Tariff (“Tariff”) and Governing Documents to allow nine entities (“Expansion Members”) in the Western Interconnection...more

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FERC Institutes Show Cause Proceeding to Address Co-Location Issues Related to Data Centers Running AI in PJM and Requests...

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On February 20, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued an order instituting a show cause proceeding in Docket No. EL25-49 to review issues associated with the co-location of large loads...more

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FERC Moves Closer to Establishing Standardized Rules for Co-location of Large Loads and Generators

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At its latest open meeting on February 20, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order directing PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM) and the PJM Transmission Owners (PJM TOs) to demonstrate why the PJM...more

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Powering the Digital Future: Navigating the Nuclear Option for Data Centers

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Modern data centers are the foundation of our information society and now use artificial intelligence to generate new forms of machine intelligence and learning – though at the cost of considerable energy consumption. Their...more

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In its first meeting of the new Administration, FERC focuses on supplying power to data centers

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On February 20, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”) held its first open meeting since the start of the new Administration. Not surprisingly, FERC focused on the challenges related to...more

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FERC Initiates Proceeding on Co-Location of Power Demand With Generating Facilities, Raising Issues That Will Reverberate Across...

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently issued an order (Co-location Order) finding that the treatment of load that co-locates behind generating facilities’ points of interconnection with the grid in the PJM...more

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FERC Institutes Show Cause Proceeding on Co-Location Issues in PJM

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On February 20, 2025, FERC found that the PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”) Open Access Transmission Tariff (“OATT”) appears to be unjust and unreasonable because it does not address with clarity or consistency the rates,...more

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FERC Announces Commissioner-led Technical Conference on Resource Adequacy in RTOs/ISOs

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On February 20, 2025, FERC Chairman Mark Christie announced an upcoming Commissioner-led technical conference on resource adequacy in Regional Transmission Organization (“RTO”) and Independent System Operator (“ISO”) regions....more

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Illinois Legislature Passes New Law on Electric Transmission Line Projects, Illinois’ First Battery Storage Procurement, and...

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Last month, the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill establishing prevailing wage requirements and tax incentives for high voltage transmission line and utility-scale battery storage projects....more

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Texas Senate Bill 6 and Impacts on Large Load Development in ERCOT

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On 12 February 2025, Texas Senate Bill 6 (SB6), authored by Sen. Phil King and Sen. Charles Schwertner, was filed. The low bill number on this indicates it is a priority bill and will likely have momentum. If passed, this...more

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Texas Senate Bill 6 – Are major regulatory changes coming for large loads and behind-the-meter arrangements in ERCOT?

On February 12, 2025, the Texas State Senate unveiled Senate Bill 6, titled “Relating to electricity planning and infrastructure costs for large loads” (SB6). This bill addresses large loads interconnecting at transmission...more

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Powering Progress: Navigating the Intricacies of On-Site Nuclear Generation

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Small modular reactors (SMRs) can be collocated with high demand customers such as data centers and large manufacturing and chemical facilities to provide electric energy and capacity to them directly. Behind-the-meter...more

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PURA Opens Investigation Into Interconnection Process Modifications

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On January 21, the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (“PURA” or the “Authority”) opened Docket 25-01-27 to investigate interconnection process modifications.  On February 3, 2025, in its Notice of Proceeding,...more

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Ley de Transición Energética

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Hoy se publicó en el Diario Oficial la Ley N° 21.721 que modifica la Ley General de Servicios Eléctricos (LGSE) en materia de transición energética, posicionando a la transmisión eléctrica como un sector habilitante para la...more

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Chile Publishes its Energy Transition Law

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Recently, Law No. 21.721 was published in Chile’s Official Gazette, modifying the General Law of Electric Services (LGSE by its Spanish acronym) regarding energy transition and positioning electric transmission as an enabling...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

Give the People What They Want (and What They Want Are More and More Clean Electrons)

As we put this post-election issue of Climate Law Matters together, my colleagues and I noticed an interesting common thread in our reflections: without minimizing the impact a negative turn to federal policy could have on...more

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High-Level Summary of FERC Order No. 1920-A on Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation

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On November 21, 2024, FERC issued Order No. 1920-A, which modified Order No. 1920 to expand the states’ roles in long-term transmission planning and clarified requirements for such planning as set forth in Order No. 1920....more

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Federal Appeals Court Appears Skeptical of State’s Ability to Question Federal Transmission Planning Decisions

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On December 5, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit heard oral arguments in Transource Pennsylvania LLC v. Steven M. Defrank, et.al. The case presents the question of potential tension between FERC’s...more

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Energy Law: Month in Review - November 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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Federal Register Notice on November 26, 2024, Establishes Date for Compliance Filings for FERC Elimination of Generator...

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On October 17, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued Order No. 904, finding on a generic basis that allowing transmission providers to charge customers for a generating facility’s provision of...more

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FERC Order Rejecting Co-Location of Nuclear Facility and Data Center Increases Uncertainty and Leaves Data Center Stakeholders...

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A recent decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”) calls into question data centers’ access to sufficient electricity supplies to support their substantial and increasing electric demands....more

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