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Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights, Volume 5, Issue 33

FERC Warned Renewables Planning Can Strand Grid Assets - "But at a FERC technical conference, others highlighted a potential risk for overbuilding and the cost it could incur for consumers." Why this is important: It's...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights, Volume 5, Issue 17

Gas Stations Run Dry as Pipeline Races to Recover From Hacking - "Gas stations along the U.S. East Coast are beginning to run out of fuel as North America’s biggest petroleum pipeline races to recover from a paralyzing...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - February 2020 #4

Cancelled Teck Oil Sands Project Underscores Global Climate-Energy Policy Tension - "The Frontier project became the latest casualty in oil-producing countries with robust environmental movements agitating to cut...more

Stoel Rives - Renewable + Law

When the Big One Hits, We’ll All Be Thankful for Grid “Resiliency”

Or so Secretary Rick Perry and the DOE would have us believe. Approximately three weeks ago, the DOE made its pitch to FERC and the energy industry that a lack of “resiliency” threatens the U.S. power grid. The responses...more

McCarter & English, LLP

DOE Requests FERC Fast-Track A Rule That Will Benefit Coal And Nuclear Plants

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On September 28, 2017, the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) took the unusual step of submitting a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) for consideration by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”), now docketed by...more

A&O Shearman

DOE Directs FERC to Consider Rule Providing Cost Recovery for Coal- and Nuclear-Fired Generating Facilities Operating in RTO/ISO...

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On September 29, 2017, Rick Perry, the Secretary of Energy, sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) directing that FERC consider exercising its ratemaking authority under Sections 205 and 206 of the...more

Stinson LLP

Surprise DOE Proposal Presses FERC to Provide Full Cost Recovery for Reliability Attributes of Generators in Bulk Power Markets

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On September 29, 2017, the Department of Energy (DOE) issued what DOE variously describes as a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) and a directive (Grid Resiliency Pricing Rule) that will involve DOE in wholesale electric...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

DOE Directs FERC to Issue Rule to Set Cost-Based Rates for Baseload Plants

On September 28, 2017, the Department of Energy (“DOE”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) proposing that Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) exercise its authority under sections 205 and 206 of the...more

Jackson Walker

Nasi joins Texas and West Virginia attorney generals at TPPF event about Clean Power Plan

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Mike Nasi, partner in our Austin office, joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrissey at a Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) event to discuss the Clean Power Plan rules in...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Obama Administration Adopts Landmark Clean Power Plan

Citing “immediate risks” to national security, public health, and the economy, the Obama Administration adopted ambitious regulations and policies to implement its Clean Power Plan, establishing the first ever national...more

Morgan Lewis

President Obama, EPA Unveil Final Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Rule

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Although legal hurdles remain, EPA’s Clean Power Plan envisions sweeping changes to the electricity generation sector designed to mitigate climate change concerns through reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, and it...more

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