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FERC: A Discussion on its Mission, Market Manipulation Investigations, and Common Violations
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On June 26, 2025, FERC upheld PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.’s (“PJM”) proposal to revise its Capacity Performance Quantifiable Risk (“CPQR”) Offer Cap. Several public interest organizations and PJM’s Independent Market Monitor...more
On June 20, 2025, FERC approved Southwest Power Pool, Inc.’s (SPP) revisions to its Western Energy Imbalance Service (WEIS) tariff to allow a participating balancing authority to initiate a market hold due to reliability...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) recently issued two orders approving proposals to expand the organized electric markets. The first order, related to a proposal from a coalition of transmission-owning...more
On December 13, 2024, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”), filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“Commission”) a modification to Part VII of its Open Access Transmission Tariff (“Tariff”), adding provisions to...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
The landscape for utilities and their customers in the power allocation space is heavily regulated. Minimum load requirements, contested rights, and myriad other issues must be understood — and handled effectively — to...more
On December 19, 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) to request public comments on questions relating to FERC’s current policy on providing blanket authorizations for the...more
As expanded opportunities such as tax incentives continue to impact the landscape, it is important to understand the fundamentals – such as the players, their roles, and their relative risk profiles. In this video, Troutman...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Sept. 5, 2023, issued a critical ruling upholding certain reforms the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued in 2020 to its regulations implementing the federal...more
In a “FERC after dark” order issued late yesterday, November 29, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) largely accepted a comprehensive reform of the PJM interconnection process that applies to both generation and...more
On July 19, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit added to a stream of recent decisions upholding a debtor's right to "reject" regulated energy contracts in bankruptcy, even over the objection of the Federal...more
At its June 16, 2022, open meeting, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR), Improvements to Generator Interconnection Procedures and Agreements, 179 FERC ¶...more
FERC initiated show-cause proceedings on April 21, 2022, to investigate the justness and reasonableness of the formula rate protocols of five public utility transmission providers in the West....more
Supercharged and back online, Troutman Pepper’s Battery + Storage Podcast kicks off Season Three with guest Bill Marsan, American Transmission Company executive vice president and general counsel. In this episode, podcast...more
PJM Interconnection Inc.’s (PJM) new “Focused” Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) went into effect on September 29, 2021, by operation of Section 205 of the Federal Power Act (FPA), because the Federal Energy Regulatory...more
On March 18, 2021, in Order 2222-A, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) largely reaffirmed its seminal Order 2222, which dramatically relaxed barriers to aggregated distributed energy resource (DER) participation...more
Below are summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's March 18, 2021 open meeting, pursuant to the agenda issued on March 11, 2021. Agenda items E-8 and G-1 have not been summarized due to...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
For the first time in 15 years, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) significantly revamped key aspects of its regulations implementing the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA). The 490-page final...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently upheld the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC or “Commission”) Order No. 841, a 2018 rulemaking addressing electric storage resources. The purpose of Order no...more
On July 10, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a major Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) order intended to support fledgling energy storage participation in organized...more
Fossil Fuels Still Supply 84 Percent of World Energy — and Other Eye Openers from BP’s Annual Review - "China was responsible for three quarters of the world’s energy consumption growth, followed by India and Indonesia....more
Below are brief summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's June 18, 2020 meeting, pursuant to the agenda as issued on June 11, 2020. Due to COVID-19 and measures undertaken by government...more
Plunging renewable energy prices mean U.S. can hit 90% clean electricity by 2035 without extra cost - Forbes – June 9 - Renewable energy has historically been considered too expensive and too unreliable to power our...more
Ohio Commission Requests Comment Delay for COVID-19 Emergency On March 18, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C (PJM) filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) proposed changes to its Tariff in compliance with FERC’s...more