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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

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Energy Law: Month in Review - November 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

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FERC Approves Extreme Cold Weather Reliability Standards EOP-011-4 and TOP-002-5

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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

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Estimating Counterfactual Prices in Energy Markets

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The use of factual/counterfactual comparisons—that is, estimating the difference between what actually happened and what would have happened absent an event—is a fundamental tool in the economists’ work box in the context of...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

After the Storm: Public Utility Commission of Texas Adopts New Winter Weatherization Rule Requirements for ERCOT-based Generators...

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In the aftermath of Winter Storm Uri, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 3, which, among other things, required the Public Utility Commission of Texas (“the Commission”) to adopt certain market-related rules. A key...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Nationwide Deep Freeze Leads to Spike in Natural Gas Prices

In the wake of the deep freeze that recently swept the nation, natural gas has taken the forefront among a slew of price gouging allegations. Last week’s winter storms caused natural gas spot market prices to spike, with some...more

Morgan Lewis - Power & Pipes

FERC to Investigate Natural Gas and Electricity Markets in Wake of Texas Storm

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced on February 22 that its Office of Enforcement would examine wholesale natural gas and electricity market activity during last week’s extreme cold weather ...more

Morgan Lewis - Power & Pipes

Texas Restricts Gas Exports Amid Cold Weather Crisis

On February 17, Texas Governor Greg Abbott took the extraordinary measure of directing the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) to restrict out-of-state exports of natural gas produced in Texas through February 21. Noting the...more

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Energy regulators step up to address recent cold weather events

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On February 16, 2021, in response to the extreme cold weather events resulting in significant power outages affecting millions of electricity customers throughout the Midwest and South Central states, particularly in systems...more

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Green Power and the 2020 California Blackouts

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This week, California experienced its first blackouts in nearly 20 years. On August 19, the California Independent System Operator (“CAISO”) issued another state-wide flex alert, calling on the public to reduce energy use to...more

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Predicting Old Man Winter and Energy Outlooks: Is it Anyone’s Guess?

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Whether we have a strong winter impacts many things. From our road conditions driving to work, the extent of demand for home heating fuels, how our livestock will fair, and our ski season (including vital tourist revenue that...more

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Currents - Energy Industry Insights - February 2019 #2

New Fortress Energy LNG Plant Demonstrates New York Insanity - "For those unfamiliar with the facility, the plant is a gigantic $800 million investment that will take in natural gas from the Marcellus Shale and liquefy it...more

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