Unpacking FERC's Transmission Planning and Permitting Final Rules
New Opportunities for Boosting Grid Security
Distributed Generation 2.0: What You Need to Know
Nora Brownell: An In-Depth Conversation With the Former FERC Commissioner – Battery + Storage Podcast
The Nexus of Transmission and Storage: A Conversation With American Transmission Company GC and Executive VP Bill Marsan - Battery + Storage Podcast
JONES DAY TALKS®: Energy Derivatives and Regulatory Enforcement by the CFTC and FERC
Virginia Energy Regulation Update - Battery + Storage Podcast (Episode 7)
FERC: A Discussion on its Mission, Market Manipulation Investigations, and Common Violations
How Trump's Infrastructure Plan Impacts the Energy Industry
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) outlined forthcoming activities to identify and address the potential impacts to reliability as a result of the rapid expansion of data centers and other large...more
On April 10, 2025, FERC addressed arguments on rehearing that clarified, but did not modify the outcome of, a November 1, 2024, order (“Rejection Order”) rejecting PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.’s (“PJM”) proposal to increase...more
The energy needs of data centers continue to grow, seemingly unabated. According to this Utility Dive Article, a report from the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) estimates that data center demand (and...more
Welcome to our fourth issue of Currents 2025. We are covering a multitude of issues in this edition, but we want to pass along a couple of announcements first. Again, thank you for reading! The Data Center Boom...more
President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) on April 8, 2025, titled "Strengthening the Reliability and Security of the United States Electric Grid." The order marks a significant step in addressing the growing...more
FERC's Order Signals Transformative Change While Navigating Jurisdictional Limits: While FERC recognizes the urgent need to address co-location arrangements (particularly given the AI/data center boom), the intricate...more
On February 20, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued an order instituting a show cause proceeding in Docket No. EL25-49 to review issues associated with the co-location of large loads...more
Building on the record of two dockets, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) initiated a new proceeding to evaluate certain issues with respect to the co-location of large loads, namely to serve data centers, in the...more
During last week’s 20 February 2025 open meeting, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) initiated a show cause proceeding, directing grid operator PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM) and PJM’s transmission-owning...more
Modern data centers are the foundation of our information society and now use artificial intelligence to generate new forms of machine intelligence and learning – though at the cost of considerable energy consumption. Their...more
On February 20, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”) held its first open meeting since the start of the new Administration. Not surprisingly, FERC focused on the challenges related to...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently issued an order (Co-location Order) finding that the treatment of load that co-locates behind generating facilities’ points of interconnection with the grid in the PJM...more
The explosion of AI technology over the past year has brought increasing awareness of the potential impact of this technology on the U.S. power grid. Electric demand attributable to data centers is expected to more than...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
A recent decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”) calls into question data centers’ access to sufficient electricity supplies to support their substantial and increasing electric demands....more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) has been active in recent weeks considering issues relating to co-located large load customers, being driven primarily by the announcements of planned investments by data...more
On 1 November 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected amendments to an interconnection agreement that would have increased the Susquehanna nuclear power plant’s capacity dedicated to serving an on-site...more
California will solicit up to 2 GW of long-duration energy storage resources as part of a 10.6 GW centralized procurement for emerging clean energy technologies to be deployed between 2031 and 2037, the California Public...more
On 2 August 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced that it will convene a Commissioner-led technical conference in Docket No. AD24-11-000 to discuss emerging issues related to the co-location of large...more
Good afternoon! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and hearings...more