On June 18, 2025, FERC temporarily raised the cost limits for blanket certificate natural gas pipeline projects constructed and placed into service by May 31, 2027, from $41 million to $61.65 million. Citing what it called a...more
7/7/2025
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On April 25, 2025, FERC approved two uncontested stipulation and agreements that propose to settle the Natural Gas Act (“NGA”) section 4 general rate cases filed on May 30, 2024, by two interconnected pipelines, Algonquin Gas...more
5/8/2025
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Transmission Lines
On January 24, 2025, FERC reinstated a certificate of public convenience and necessity (“CPCN”) for Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company’s (“Transco”) Regional Energy Access Expansion Project (“Project”) after the D.C....more
On February 15, 2024, FERC approved two new extreme cold weather Reliability Standards EOP-011-4 (Emergency Operations) and TOP-002-5 (Operations Planning)....more
3/20/2024
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Transmission Grid
On November 16, 2023, FERC granted Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia’s (“Dominion”) petition requesting the Commission declare that Dominion’s planned liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) production,...more
11/27/2023
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Renewable Fuel
The utility industry is rapidly adopting biomethane, also known as renewable natural gas or “RNG,” to supplement traditional natural gas as a fuel source for both electric generation and heating purposes. Previously, RNG...more
On May 16, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (“D.C. Circuit”) issued an opinion in Center for Biological Diversity v. Alaska Gasline Development Corporation, affirming FERC’s...more
On July 8, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (“D.C. Circuit”) issued its decision in City of Oberlin, Ohio v. FERC, a proceeding involving the issue of whether FERC properly granted...more