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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
What You Need to Know - • Legislation requiring the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to open registration for an additional 3,000 MWs of community solar development has been signed into law by Governor Murphy. • The...more
On August 7, 2025, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Center for Biological Diversity, Inc. v. Public Utilities Commission (Cal., Aug. 7, 2025, No. S283614), 2025 WL 2253765 (Center for Biological Diversity)....more
On August 7, 2025, the California Supreme Court (the Court) issued Opinion S283614 in the case Center For Biological Diversity, Inc. v. Public Utilities Commission regarding the degree of deference that courts should afford...more
On August 7, 2025, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Center For Biological Diversity v. California Public Utilities Commission. The decision reversed the decision of a lower appellate court which had...more
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
Recently, the Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) opened an inquiry and issued a request for comment from energy storage developers by June 9 to support a forthcoming procurement for up to 200 MW of transmission-level...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 Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC) opened Docket UM 2111 in June 2020 with the goal of investigating interconnection policies and processes to address emerging challenges in the energy sector. Phase 1 of this...more
On September 6, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued an order finding that the presence of a non-independent director, i.e., one who is affiliated with an investor, on the board of...more
On August 29, 2024, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (“DPU”) issued a highly anticipated order approving the Electric Sector Modernization Plans (“ESMPs”) filed by the three Massachusetts electric distribution...more
The California Public Utilities Commission has reformed its Resource Adequacy program in an effort to ensure a reliable power supply statewide. The Commission recognized significant delays development projects face due to...more
The Maine PUC has recently opened two related dockets that will significantly impact the renewable energy industry. The first, Docket No. 2024-00137, is a follow-on docket to the PUC’s Investigation into the Stranded Cost...more
Following the initial public release of private letter ruling (PLR) 20242002 as part of a state rate proceeding, on June 28, 2024, the IRS publicly released that ruling, as well as two companion rulings obtained by other...more
Join us for Bricker Graydon’s Energy Exchange. The topic of this event will be interconnection reform at PJM, a regional transmission organization that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity, and at the Public...more
Since the issuance of Revenue Procedure (Rev. Proc.) 2005-62, many utilities have used securitizations authorized by state law to secure collections of stranded costs upon the retirement of certain generation plants or costs...more
California energy regulators, during their meeting on February 15, approved a sweeping plan to reduce the state’s yearly electric sector greenhouse gas emissions to 25 million metric tons by 2035, down nearly 60% compared to...more
Below are brief summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC or the Commission) open meeting to be held on December 19th, at 10:00 a.m. ET. The summaries below are based on publicly...more
On November 3, 2023, the Maine Public Utilities Commission (the “Commission”) issued an Order adopting amendments to its Small Generator Interconnection Procedures Rule (Chapter 324)....more
On March 17, 2023, the Texas Court of Appeals for the Third District issued an opinion reversing two winter storm Uri orders by the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) that had raised power prices in ERCOT to...more
On February 17, 2023, Georgetown Broadband LLC (GBLLC) became the latest community broadband entity to receive pole attachment authorization from the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to deploy a fiber broadband...more
The Maine Public Utilities Commission is currently considering whether to commence a formal emergency rulemaking process to amend Chapter 324 of its rules governing generator interconnections. The purpose of the rulemaking...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