On June 4–5, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) hosted a commissioner-led technical conference to discuss resource adequacy challenges facing regional transmission organizations and...more
Latham partner Alexander “Stefan” Rieger spoke with industry leaders about the impact of artificial intelligence on data center and energy capacity in Europe....more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) on Feb. 20, 2025, initiated a review of issues associated with the co-location of large loads (such as data centers) at generating facilities in the PJM...more
Bitcoin mining company pays $1.42 million for violating PJM’s tariff in relation to its power plant operations. On January 30, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) approved a settlement agreement...more
O Ministério de Minas e Energia (MME) publicou as Portarias Normativas nº 96, de 31 de dezembro de 2024, e nº 97, de 3 de janeiro de 2025, que estabelecem as diretrizes para a realização do Leilão de Reserva de Capacidade na...more
On December 16, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) issued an Order to Show Cause and Notice of Proposed Penalty proposing to assess staggering civil penalties against American Efficient,...more
As covered briefly in our previous article, the “route to market” / offtake arrangements/ revenue contracts are perhaps the key difference between battery energy storage systems (BESS) projects and other project-financed...more
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
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
The United States is facing a supply and demand problem in the electric sector, raising serious concerns not only about energy affordability but the reliability of the grid. On Tuesday, July 30, 2024, PJM Interconnection,...more
Interconnection reform is coming to New York State—right on (a slightly revised) schedule. In response to the issuance of a rehearing and clarification order on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) Order No. 2023...more
On February 14, 2023, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld FERC’s broad definition of qualifying facilities (“QF”) under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (“PURPA”). In Broadview Solar, LLC, 174 FERC ¶...more
On Friday, May 27, 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order approving ISO-New England’s proposed tariff revisions, which phase out the ISO’s minimum offer price rule (MOPR) by 2024...more
In a notice issued on September 29, 2021, FERC stated that it did not act on PJM Interconnection LLC’s (PJM’s) proposed reforms to the application of the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) because the Commissioners are divided...more
On May 26, 2021, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) staff issued a white paper regarding the current status and use of hybrid resources – e.g., co-located generation and storage facilities – in wholesale markets,...more
On November 19, 2020, FERC upheld its March 2018 order addressing ISO New England, Inc.’s (“ISO-NE”) Competitive Auctions with Sponsored Policy Resources (“CASPR”) proposal to integrate certain state-supported resources into...more
On September 4, 2020, FERC rejected the New York Independent System Operator, Inc.’s (“NYISO”) proposed revisions to its buyer-side mitigation (“BSM”) rules that sought to prioritize storage, wind, solar, and other...more
This week, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office released a white paper documenting the results of a symposium convened last fall to discuss how electric markets should be organized to manage the transition to a “low /...more
On February 20, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“Commission” or “FERC”) issued several orders narrowing New York Independent System Operator, Inc.’s (“NYISO”) buyer-side market power mitigation rules in its...more
In a July 25, 2019 order, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) directed PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”) not to conduct the Base Residual Auction (“BRA”) to procure capacity for the 2022-2023 delivery year in...more
The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) is accepting stakeholder comments until August 13, 2019 on its new Hybrid Resources Issue Paper, kicking off a stakeholder initiative expected to proceed until April 2020....more
The UK announces interim measures for dealing with the capacity market in the standstill period imposed by the Tempus Decision. In the meantime, Tempus Energy is pursuing national legal action against the UK as well as...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) on December 20 proposing changes to its regulations regarding the horizontal market power analysis required for market-based...more
In June 2018, CXA La Paloma, LLC (“La Paloma”) filed a complaint at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or “the Commission”) seeking to require the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) to implement a...more
A coalition of electric generators in California has urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or “the Commission”) to require the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) to implement a centralized capacity...more