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Currents - Energy Industry Insights, V 8, Issue 8, August 2024

Welcome to the eighth 2024 issue of Currents - our e-newsletter focused on energy topics. Is Nuclear the Panacea to Data Center Load Growth? Per public data, after years of relatively flat load growth around the...more

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FERC Approves New Final Rule for Permit to Site Interstate Electric Transmission Facilities

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At its May 13, 2024 open meeting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unanimously approved Order No. 1977,[1] which updates the process FERC uses when exercising its transmission siting authority under Section 216...more

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Unpacking FERC's Transmission Planning and Permitting Final Rules

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In episode 3 of "An Energized Exchange," Senior Policy Advisor Elizabeth Noll and Energy attorney Nic Martell unpack the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) transmission planning and permitting final rules. Order...more

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Client Alert: FERC Issues Final Rule on How to Plan and Pay for Electricity Transmission

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On May 13, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued its long-awaited final rule on regional transmission planning and cost allocation, Order No. 1920. The final rule’s release follows a notice-and-comment...more

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FERC Directs NERC to Develop Reliability Standards for Inverter Based Resources

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On October 19, 2023, FERC issued a final rule directing the North American Reliability Corporation (“NERC”) to develop or modify reliability standards to address reliability concerns attributable to inverter-based resources...more

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Client Alert: FERC Order No. 2023: Implications and Unanswered Questions

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On July 28, 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued its long awaited final rule, Order No. 2023, directing all public utility transmission providers to revise their pro forma generator interconnection...more

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FERC Requires Transmission Providers to File Extreme Weather Assessments

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) on June 15, 2023, finalized a rule requiring interstate electric transmission providers to file one-time informational reports assessing the susceptibility of...more

Stoel Rives - Renewable + Law

FERC Rules on Order No. 841 Compliance Filings

In February 2018, as part of its efforts to remove barriers for electric storage resources, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued its final rule on electric storage participation in organized markets (Order...more

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Michigan Workgroup Issues Health-Based Drinking Water Value Recommendations for PFAS in Next Step Toward Establishing Enforceable...

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On June 27, 2019, the Michigan Science Advisory Workgroup (the Workgroup) issued its Health-Based Drinking Water Value Recommendations for PFAS in Michigan. In late March 2019, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the formation of...more

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FERC and NERC Advance Dramatically Expanded Mandatory Cybersecurity Reporting Standards - Medium and High BES Systems Could Face...

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• New Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rule mandates new wide-ranging cybersecurity reporting standards in CIP 008-6. • Mandatory reporting is now required for "cyber security incidents that either compromise, or...more

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IRS to Publish Final Utility Allowance Regulations for LIHTC Properties

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On Monday, the IRS will publish final utility allowance regulations for low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) properties under Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code (Code)....more

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FERC Sets $10 Million Threshold on Public Utility Merger Approvals

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On Feb. 21, 2019, the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) issued a final rule revising its regulations governing public utility mergers or consolidations. The primary effect of this rule is to set a $10 million...more

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FERC Revises Its Regulations Regarding Computation of Time

On February 8, 2019, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the “Commission”) issued a Final Rule revising its regulations in 18 C.F.R. § 385.2007 regarding computation of time periods prescribed or allowed by...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2018 #4

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced on July 19, 2018, that it is directing the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) “to develop and submit modifications to the NERC Reliability...more

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FERC Requires New NERC Reliability Standards for Reporting Cyber Incidents

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced on July 19, 2018, that it is directing the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) “to develop and submit modifications to the NERC Reliability...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

FERC Amends Regulations to Remedy Barriers to Energy Storage Participation in Wholesale Electricity Markets; Saves Distributed...

At its February 15, 2018, Open Meeting, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the “Commission”) issued Order No. 841 (the “Final Rule”) to remove barriers to the participation of energy storage resources in the...more

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FERC Adopts New Regulations Allowing Higher-Priced Energy Offers in Organized Electricity Markets

At its November Open Meeting, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the “Commission”) issued a Final Rule (Order No. 831) directing the Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators...more

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Environmental and Industry Groups Challenge EPA Coal Ash Rule

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The news has been full of stories and articles concerning Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR), also referred to as coal ash. CCR became a hot topic in 2008 when a coal ash pond at a utility plant in Tennessee spilled more than 5...more

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FERC Issues Final Rule Streamlining Market-Based Rate Policies and Procedures

On October 16, 2015, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order No. 816, a Final Rule streamlining its requirements for authorization to make wholesale sales of electric energy, capacity and ancillary...more

Orrick - Finance 20/20

CFTC Adopts Final Rule on Utility Operations-related Swaps with Utility Special Entities

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On September 17, the CFTC approved a final rule on the exclusion of utility operations-related swaps with utility special entities from de minimis threshold for swaps with special entities. “Special entities” refers to...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

EPA Publishes Final 316(b) Rule: Flexibility for Generators Means Litigation By Environmental Groups

Last Friday, EPA finally published its § 316(b) rule in the Federal Register. As we noted in May, the rule is more significant for what it does not do – require closed cycle cooling – than for what it does....more

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