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FERC Staff Releases 2025 Summer Energy Market and Electric Reliability Assessment

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On May 15, 2025, the FERC’s Office of Energy Policy and Innovation, in coordination with the Office of Electric Reliability, released their 2025 Summer Energy Market and Electric Reliability Assessment, highlighting key...more

Integral Consulting Inc.

Microgrids and Wildfire Resilience: A Case Study of California Fires

The risk of catastrophic wildfires is increasing. Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation and wind patterns, and alterations in vegetation are contributing to environmental conditions conducive to more frequent and...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Energy Law: Month in Review - May 2024

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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

Goldberg Segalla

Another Electrical Utility Settles Wildfire Litigation

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As widely reported, including in previous issues of the Environmental Law Monitor, the environmental and financial impacts of wildfires in recent years have been significant. In the aftermath of these events, an...more

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Supreme Court of California Rejects Class Action Suit Against PG&E for its 2019 Blackouts

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Introduction - In Gantner v. PG&E Corporation et al. (November 20, 2023) No. S273340, 2023 WL 8010215, the Supreme Court of California (“Court”) unanimously held that a plaintiff’s class action lawsuit against PG&E for...more

Console and Associates, P.C.

Litigation Over Lahaina Wildfire Commences as Residents Claim Negligence of Hawaiian Electric Industries Resulted in Over 100...

Earlier this month, wildfires tore through the Island of Maui. While the fires affected an estimated 17,000 acres, the town of Lahaina was hit the hardest, leaving over 114 people dead and another 850 missing. More recently,...more

Allen Matkins

Renewable Energy Update - August 2022 #4

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Expansion of clean energy loans is ‘sleeping giant’ of climate bill - The New York Times – August 22 - Tucked into the Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden signed last week is a major expansion of federal loan...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Public Safety Power Shutoffs in California: Risk Management Tips and Resources

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To help prevent wildfires during extreme weather conditions, California electric utility companies have adopted the use of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS). Beginning in 2017, PSPS have been utilized to reduce the risk of...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Obligations for Owners of Overhead Communications and Electric Facilities in California

In 49 states, the safety standard that governs overhead communications and electric facilities is the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC). California—not surprisingly—has adopted its own standard: General Order (G.O.) 95....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Utilities' Roles in Oregon Wildfires Take On Renewed Focus

Once again, the West Coast has experienced a catastrophic wildfire season. Lives lost, thousands displaced, communities destroyed, millions of acres burned, and hazardous air blanketing the region: this has been the reality...more

Allen Matkins

Renewable Energy Update - September 2020 #3

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Wildfire smoke decreases California solar energy output - KQED – September 11 - Thick layers of ash and smoke in California have made it harder for solar panels to absorb sunlight, decreasing their energy output by as...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - March 2020 #3

Coronavirus Throws EU Climate Plans into Disarray - "Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said last week that the EU should 'forget about' the Green Deal for now while it focuses on Coronavirus." Why this is important: ...more

Nossaman LLP

[Webinar] Water, Power & Fire: Coordination, Resiliency and Liability in 2020 - February 26th, 1:00 pm PT

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Please join Lori Anne Dolqueist and Willis Hon on February 26, 2020 for the first presentation in our 2020 Water Webinar Series, "Water, Power & Fire: Coordination, Resiliency and Liability in 2020." This complimentary...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 12.18.2019 | Top Story: Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot Boards Agree to $50 Billion Merger

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Fiat Chrysler and rival Peugeot have agreed to binding merger terms that, if approved by US and European regulators, would create a “$50 billion auto giant that would rank among the world’s largest car companies by sales”....more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.09.2019 | Top Story: States Begin Trial Today Challenging T-Mobile/Sprint Merger on Antitrust Grounds

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Thirteen states and the District of Columbia are suing to block the $26 billion plan to merge T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp. The trial is slated to begin today with state officials arguing the deal would create “a more...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.05.2019 | Top Story: CBS and Viacom Finalize Deal to Reunite Media Empire

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CBS and Viacom are back together again. The deal to reunite the former partners, which closed late yesterday, was pushed by National Amusements’ chief Shari Redstone since 2016 and hasted along recently by the precipitous...more

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Federal Bankruptcy Court Denies PG&E’s Attempt to Set Aside Inverse Condemnation Liability

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On November 27, 2019, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali issued a Memorandum Decision on Inverse Condemnation (“Memorandum Decision”) in PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas & Electric’s (together, “PG&E”) Chapter 11 Bankruptcy...more

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Gov. Newsom Pledges $75 Million in Funds for State and Local Governments to Mitigate Power Shutoff Impacts

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City Proposals for Funding Due Nov. 4 - In response to the recent and continued utility-initiated power shutoffs that are leaving millions of Californians without power, Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a Local Government Public...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.14.2019 | Top Story: WeWork Board Weighing Bailout Options from SoftBank and JPMorgan

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We Work’s largest investor, SoftBank, is reportedly sketching out plans in which it would drop billions of additional money on the company in return for giving Masa Son control of WeWork “and further sidelin[ing] its founder...more

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CPUC Set to Open a New Rulemaking to Decide When a Utility Can Turn Off Power in Dangerous Conditions

On December 13 the California Public Utilities Commission (“CPUC”) will vote on whether to open a new rulemaking to determine when an electric utility can de-energize power lines in cases of dangerous conditions that threaten...more

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