Below are brief summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC or the Commission) open meeting to be held on October 19th, at 10:00 a.m. ET. The summaries below are based on publicly...more
10/19/2023
/ Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity ,
Electricity ,
Energy Sector ,
FERC ,
Hydro Issues ,
Hydropower ,
Natural Gas ,
Oil & Gas ,
Pipelines ,
Power Companies ,
Public Utility ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Utilities Sector
Below are brief summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC or the Commission) open meeting to be held on September 21st, at 10:00 a.m. ET. The summaries below are based on publicly...more
9/20/2023
/ Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity ,
Electricity ,
Energy Sector ,
FERC ,
Hydro Issues ,
Hydropower ,
Natural Gas ,
Oil & Gas ,
Pipelines ,
Power Companies ,
Public Utility ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Utilities Sector
Below are brief summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC or the Commission) open meeting to be held on July 27, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. ET. The summaries below are based on publicly...more
7/25/2023
/ Administrative Hearings ,
Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity ,
Electricity ,
Energy Sector ,
FERC ,
Hydro Issues ,
Hydropower ,
Natural Gas ,
Oil & Gas ,
Pipelines ,
Power Companies ,
Public Utility ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Utilities Sector
Below are brief summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC or the Commission) open meeting to be held on June 15, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. ET. The summaries below are based on publicly...more
Below are brief summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC or the Commission) open meeting to be held on May 18, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. ET. The summaries below are based on publicly...more
5/17/2023
/ Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity ,
Electricity ,
Energy Sector ,
FERC ,
Hydropower ,
Natural Gas ,
NERC ,
Oil & Gas ,
Pipelines ,
Power Companies ,
Public Utility ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Transmission Lines ,
Utilities Sector
In late January, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) published a final rule directing the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to develop and submit modified reliability standards for internal...more
3/8/2023
/ Bulk Electric System ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Incident Reporting ,
Cybersecurity ,
Electricity ,
Energy Policy ,
FERC ,
Final Rules ,
NERC ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Risk Management
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on December 15, 2022, issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) to update its regulations governing backstop siting authority for electric transmission projects...more
In a pair of recent orders, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced significant clarifications regarding (1) what constitutes a change of control of a public utility or public utility holding company (FERC...more
Five New England states issued a Request for Information (RFI) on September 1, seeking comment from interested stakeholders by October 14, 2022, on changes and upgrades to the regional electric transmission system to...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), on April 14, 2022, accepted a “State Agreement Approach” Agreement (SAA Agreement) between PJM Interconnection, LLC (PJM) and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJ...more
The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which President Biden signed into law today, and the proposed $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376) each set aside historic investments in clean energy. The...more
11/16/2021
/ Clean Energy ,
Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Policies ,
FERC ,
Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) ,
Infrastructure ,
Infrastructure Financing ,
Legislative Agendas ,
NOAA ,
Offshore Wind ,
Renewable Energy ,
Wind Power
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently signaled potential wide-reaching reforms to regional electric transmission planning, cost allocation, and generator interconnection processes. Nearing the tenth anniversary of...more
FERC’s twice-delayed new relational database is now live and parties must begin to use it in connection with new applications for market-based rate authority or changes to existing market-based rate tariffs. In addition,...more
Colonial Pipeline shut down 5,500 miles of its East Coast pipeline on May 7, 2021, in an effort to contain a security breach resulting from a ransomware attack. Colonial’s pipeline is one of the nation’s largest and carries...more
5/18/2021
/ Biden Administration ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Energy Sector ,
FERC ,
GAO ,
Hackers ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
NERC ,
New Legislation ,
Pipelines ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Security Breach ,
Transportation Security Administration
On April 15, 2021, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission supplemented the notice of proposed rulemaking (Supplemental NOPR) for transmission incentives it issued last year (2020 NOPR). In its Supplemental NOPR, FERC...more
On March 22, 2021, FERC took a step toward reforming the way in which it analyzes greenhouse gas emissions for purposes of natural gas pipeline certificates. However, FERC did so via a certificate order rather than a revised...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission held its first monthly meeting of 2021 on January 19, welcoming new Commissioner Mark Christie to his first meeting and taking on a packed agenda. Some attention has already been paid...more
The Energy Bar Association held a very well-attended virtual Fall Forum last week. Perkins Coie Partner Jane Rueger, who is president of the EBA this year, opened the Fall Forum with an address that built on the event theme...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued Order 2222 on September 17, 2020. The order amends its regulations with the expansive goal of removing barriers to distributed energy resource (DER) aggregations’ participation...more
For the first time in 15 years, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) significantly revamped key aspects of its regulations implementing the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA). The 490-page final...more
On June 30, 2020, in an en banc review, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit concluded that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission cannot delay judicial review of its decisions by issuance of tolling orders. The...more