During the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) open meeting on April 17, 2025, Chairman Mark Christie vigorously criticized PJM Interconnection LLC (PJM) for arguing that its regional transmission project approval...more
4/22/2025
/ Constitutional Challenges ,
Devon Energy Production v Sheppard ,
Energy Projects ,
FERC ,
PJM ,
Preemption ,
Regulatory Authority ,
State and Local Government ,
Transmission Lines ,
Transmission Planning ,
Utilities Sector
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
9/8/2023
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Chevron v NRDC ,
Energy Market ,
Energy Reform ,
Energy Sector ,
FERC ,
ISOs ,
NEPA ,
PURPA ,
Renewable Energy ,
RTO ,
Utilities Sector
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) on June 15, 2023, finalized a rule requiring interstate electric transmission providers to file one-time informational reports assessing the susceptibility of...more
At its open monthly meeting on March 16, 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved a new cybersecurity standard proposed by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to address the supply...more
3/21/2023
/ Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Federal Power Act ,
FERC ,
Infrastructure ,
NERC ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Supply Chain ,
Utilities Sector
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Dec. 15, 2022, proposed an important new set of regulations to implement certain changes recently passed by Congress to the agency's authority to license new interstate...more
12/21/2022
/ Biden Administration ,
Comment Period ,
Electricity ,
Energy Sector ,
FERC ,
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Proposed Rules ,
Transmission Grid ,
Transmission Planning ,
Utilities Sector
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an important Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) regarding its generator interconnection procedures and agreements. This NOPR, issued on June 16, 2022, follows FERC's...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), relying on its authority under Section 206 of the Federal Power Act (FPA), issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on April 21, 2022, laying out broad reforms to its...more
At the open monthly meeting of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Sept. 23, 2021, a joint team composed of the staffs of FERC, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and NERC's various...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
Some of America's largest energy customers issued an unprecedented policy statement, advocating that the federal government implement ambitious policies to modernize the electric grid, expand access to organized wholesale...more
On Feb. 21, 2019, the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) issued a final rule revising its regulations governing public utility mergers or consolidations. The primary effect of this rule is to set a $10 million...more
2/25/2019
/ Energy Sector ,
Federal Power Act ,
FERC ,
Filing Requirements ,
Final Rules ,
Merger Controls ,
Mergers ,
Notification Requirements ,
Public Utility ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Section 203 ,
Threshold Requirements ,
Utilities Sector