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Scaling for Growth/Meeting the Demand for Reliable, Affordable Electricity: U.S. House of Representatives Energy Subcommittee...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 3/28/2025

The United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Commerce held a March 5th hearing entitled: Scaling for Growth: Meeting the Demand for Reliable, Affordable Electricity (“Hearing”)....more

Plugged In: An EV Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 4

Dickinson Wright on 4/19/2024

Welcome to this month's edition of Plugged In. In this issue, we focus on the complex challenges facing electric utilities in addressing the critical need to adequately generate and transmit electricity to power the...more

U.S. Department of Energy Releases Cybersecurity Baselines for Utilities and DERs

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel on 3/7/2024

As part of the Biden Administration’s efforts to align energy cybersecurity efforts across the country, the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) has funded the release of a set of energy distribution cybersecurity baselines for...more

2024 Energy Transition Outlook Survey Report

Womble Bond Dickinson on 11/14/2023

Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD)’s 2024 Energy Transition Outlook Survey Report points to a new phase in the multi-generational journey to Net Zero. While 56% of our respondents are deepening their focus on their transition...more

U.S. Electrical Grid and Renewables – Vulnerability to Cyber Attacks

Husch Blackwell LLP on 10/2/2023

As discussed previously in this blog, physical attacks against substations have been on the rise. However, the U.S. power grid is also vulnerable to cyberattacks from U.S. adversaries, which includes hostile foreign...more

Texas Passes SB 2627 and HB 1500 to Strengthen the Electric Grid and Energy Market

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 7/7/2023

At the conclusion of a hotly contested Texas 88th Regular Legislative Session, the Texas Legislature has passed, and Governor Abbott has signed into law, two major pieces of legislation that could have substantial impacts on...more

Overview of the Impact of the 88th Legislative Session on the Oil, Gas and Renewables Industries in Texas

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 6/15/2023

The 88th regular session of the Texas Legislature saw an unusually high number of proposed bills with a stated focus of ensuring reliability of the Texas grid and favoring “dispatchable generation” (having output within human...more

Power Grids and Points of Vulnerability: Keeping the Lights on Amid Cybersecurity Concerns

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog on 6/8/2023

Although that new smart refrigerator might seem like a fun gadget and great way to sync up grocery lists, smart appliances have the potential to become vectors in malicious power grid attacks. Or what about the increasingly...more

Key Takeaways for the Energy Industry from the 2023 Texas Legislative Session: What Passed and What Failed

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 6/2/2023

Monday, May 29, 2023, marked the official end of the 88th regular session of the Texas Legislature. It was an especially active session for the energy industry, which saw the passage of several bills that, if signed into law...more

Crypto-Assets and Climate Change – It’s Complicated

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 9/23/2022

On September 8, the White House published a report (“Climate-Crypto Report”) on Climate and Energy Implications of Crypto-Assets in the United States, which was followed by a detailed Fact Sheet summarizing the findings in...more

Inflation Reduction Act of 2022: Energy/Climate Provisions

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 8/3/2022

United States Senate negotiators reached an agreement on July 27th on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”). The 725-page bill would use fiscal year 2021 reconciliation instructions to raise revenue in order to fund...more

Cybersecurity 2022 – The Year in Preview: Continued Threats to Nation’s Energy Supply as Regulators Race to Keep Up

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 2/2/2022

Continued Threats of Ransomware Attacks - As we reported in our 2021 Year in Preview series, we began 2021 anticipating that ransomware would be a serious threat to critical energy infrastructure. These concerns were...more

Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Could Revolutionize the Energy Industry

Morgan Lewis on 11/16/2021

President Joseph Biden signed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (the Act) on November 15, 2021, which allocates $550 billion in new spending over the next five years to improve US infrastructure,...more

FERC and NERC Publish Whitepaper on SolarWinds and Related Supply Chain Compromise

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 7/8/2021

On July 6, 2021, the staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC) issued a whitepaper...more

U.S. Department of Energy Seeks Comments on Securing Electric Infrastructure from Attacks from Foreign Adversaries

Wiley Rein LLP on 4/27/2021

On April 22, 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) called for public comments on policies that the Administration should pursue to secure the U.S. electric grid from exploitation and attack by foreign adversaries. The DOE...more

Congress Updates US Energy Policy, Incorporates Energy-Related Tax Provisions Through Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

Morgan Lewis on 12/30/2020

The US Congress has adopted the first extensive update to US federal energy policies in over a decade in the Energy Act of 2020 (Energy Act), which President Donald Trump signed into law on December 27 as part of the...more

Today's Popular Updates › Energy Sector › Power Grid

Scaling for Growth/Meeting the Demand for Reliable, Affordable Electricity: U.S. House of Representatives Energy Subcommittee...

Plugged In: An EV Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 4

U.S. Department of Energy Releases Cybersecurity Baselines for Utilities and DERs

2024 Energy Transition Outlook Survey Report

U.S. Electrical Grid and Renewables – Vulnerability to Cyber Attacks

Texas Passes SB 2627 and HB 1500 to Strengthen the Electric Grid and Energy Market

Overview of the Impact of the 88th Legislative Session on the Oil, Gas and Renewables Industries in Texas

Power Grids and Points of Vulnerability: Keeping the Lights on Amid Cybersecurity Concerns

Key Takeaways for the Energy Industry from the 2023 Texas Legislative Session: What Passed and What Failed

Crypto-Assets and Climate Change – It’s Complicated

Inflation Reduction Act of 2022: Energy/Climate Provisions

Cybersecurity 2022 – The Year in Preview: Continued Threats to Nation’s Energy Supply as Regulators Race to Keep Up

Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Could Revolutionize the Energy Industry

FERC and NERC Publish Whitepaper on SolarWinds and Related Supply Chain Compromise

U.S. Department of Energy Seeks Comments on Securing Electric Infrastructure from Attacks from Foreign Adversaries

Congress Updates US Energy Policy, Incorporates Energy-Related Tax Provisions Through Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

Cybersecurity 2021 – The Year in Preview: Ransomware, the Latest Threat to the Nation’s Energy Supply

Senate Energy Natural Resources Committee Examines Cyberattack Readiness of the US Bulk-Power System

Currents - Energy Industry Insights: Issue 29, July 2020

Is the U.S. Energy Sector Prepared for a Cyber Attack?

Cybersecurity 2020 — The Year in Preview: The Energy Sector’s Growing Vulnerability to Cyberattack

Are Smart Grids Smart Enough to Prevent Cyber Attacks?

Renewable Energy Update - October 2019 #3

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2019

Senate Considers Bill to Protect Electric Grid from Cyber Attacks

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