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Baker Botts L.L.P.

Texas Senate Bill 6: Significant Changes to Interconnection Requirements Will Impact Large Loads and Other Electric Market...

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During its recently concluded regular session, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 6 (“SB 6”), which establishes new requirements and costs for the interconnection and operation of Large Load customers in Texas. The bill...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Authorizes Tariff for AEP Ohio’s Data Center Customers, Requires End of Moratorium on New...

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio issued a decision on July 9, 2025 authorizing AEP Ohio to implement a new data center-specific tariff that will be applicable to many data center customers signing up for new or...more

Balch & Bingham LLP

Texas SB 6 Overhauls Rules for Large Energy Loads in ERCOT

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A new state law in Texas, SB 6, significantly changes how large loads interconnect with and operate within The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid. Energy companies developing large data centers, crypto...more

Cozen O'Connor

Illinois Insights: An update from Cozen O'Connor (6/4)

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With electric prices going up, advocates tried — and failed — to reform the energy sector - “Heading into the end of the legislative session, consumer advocates, renewable energy industry groups and environmental advocates...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

CryptoLink - April 2025

Following a two-week Easter recess at the end of April, Congress returned to Washington, D.C. with all eyes on budget reconciliation. Individual committees marked up legislation in accordance with reconciliation directives to...more

Goldberg Segalla

Will Riding the Crypto Mining Wave Only Lead to Wipeout?

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In the past couple of years, multiple states across the nation have made various attempts to attract cryptocurrency mining centers at which the virtual currency is “mined” on a colossal scale — a process requiring a...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Week 9 in Review: Agency Rollbacks Continue as Administration Focuses on Trade and Energy

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The administration continues to roll back regulation while shifting its focus to trade, domestic production, and immigration. This week, President Trump issued executive orders closing the Department of Education and...more

Hogan Lovells

Microgeneration in the UK - Power to the people

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Microgeneration of electricity is nothing new - the world’s first coal fired power station generating electricity for public use was on the site of our own neighbours in London at 57 Holborn Viaduct, built initially to power...more

Goldberg Segalla

Can Crypto Mining Maintain its 2025 Regulatory Hot Streak?

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The election of Donald Trump back into office was cheered by cryptocurrency enthusiasts across the country for his public support of the industry. After all, the president even has his own memecoin ($TrumpCoin, of course) and...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

FERC Rejects Basin’s Special Rate for Crypto and Large Load Customers, Sparking Further Interest in “Large Load” Policy...

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On August 20, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued an order rejecting, without prejudice, a contested proposal from Basin Electric Power Cooperative (“Basin”) to establish special wholesale power...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Crossing the Wires of Energy and Cryptocurrency Policy: U.S. Congress Investigates the Environmental Impact of Crypto Mining

The rapid adoption of cryptocurrency and other popular blockchain applications has captured our global economy’s attention. Even as the value of cryptocurrencies slid from their all-time highs, the promise of these digital...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

[Webinar] The Biden Administration: What Businesses Need to Know - More Regulation and Opportunities for Companies and Banking:...

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The Biden administration is signaling significant policy shifts. Business owners and C-Suite executives are encouraged to join us for a series of complimentary webcasts discussing these likely changes and how they will impact...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2021 Insights: Regulatory

Transition From Trump to Biden May Bring Less Change to Antitrust Enforcement Than Expected - Over the past four years, the DOJ's Antitrust Division and the FTC applied novel theories to increase scrutiny of vertical...more

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