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
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
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 18, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14215, entitled “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies,” aimed at increasing direct presidential oversight of independent agencies and commissions. Unlike...more
When there is a change of Administration in Washington, the trade press often inquires about the anticipated changes at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the primary federal regulator of the nation’s power...more
Among his first actions on January 20, President Trump appointed Mark Christie as Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Chairman Christie was confirmed as a FERC commissioner in 2020, near the beginning...more
Summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's monthly open meeting to be held on January 16, 2025, pursuant to the sunshine notice released on January 8, 2025. ...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 January 16, at 10:00 a.m. ET. The summaries below are based on publicly...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. Please reach out to any of the authors, listed above, to discuss these issues....more
Carbon Quarterly is a newsletter covering developments in carbon policy, law, and innovation. No matter your views on climate change policy, there is no avoiding an increasing focus on carbon regulation, resiliency planning,...more
The energy demands of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are growing significantly, with the Department of Energy (DOE) forecasting a tenfold increase in data center energy demand due to the rise of AI applications and...more
On May 13, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued Order No. 1920,[1] its long-awaited Final Rule relating to long-term regional planning and regional cost allocation. This article...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued Order No. 1920, which adopts specific requirements for transmission providers to conduct long-term planning for regional transmission facilities and determine how to...more
As soon as tomorrow (Thursday, April 4, 2024), New England could have a new long-term transmission planning process—and one that puts the states in the driver’s seat. The New England Power Pool (“NEPOOL”) Transmission...more
On March 22, 2024, Foley Hoag hosted the latest gathering of the New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable. The Roundtable, which has been meeting regularly since 1995, was originally organized to contemplate the...more
Recently, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”) has issued two Orders regarding transmission projects’ requests for transmission rate incentives. The pair of rulings, each of which includes a...more
Congress returned for the second half of the 118th Congress in January with an immediate agenda focused on avoiding a government shutdown, a priority that has been punted several times through continuing resolutions, and...more
On October 19, 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) directed the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to submit new or modified Reliability Standards that address the impacts of...more
● Offshore Oil and Gas at Risk of Potentially Catastrophic Cyberattack: GAO - “The industry includes about 1,600 offshore oil and gas facilities that are highly dependent on remotely connected operational technology, the...more
Last week, the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources (SENR) held a hearing on “Federal Regulatory Authorities Governing the Development of Interstate Hydrogen Pipelines, Storage, Import, and Export.” Chaired by...more
Congress and the Biden Administration recognize hydrogen’s potential to address the clean energy imperative. This past year, The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act appropriated $8B of spending to build out clean hydrogen...more
Climate change poses the biggest threat to our ocean and to the future of the planet. Its harmful impacts can be mitigated by decarbonizing our energy grid. Achieving major carbon emissions reductions in the electricity...more
Many of you already know that Massachusetts timely meeting its Greenhouse Gas reduction goals is entirely dependent on our ability to receive hydroelectricity generated in Canada, at least until other renewable energy is...more
On November 15th, 2021, President Biden signed the highly anticipated $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. Among other infrastructure-related incentives, the bill includes billions in funding to help fight climate change and...more
The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which President Biden signed into law today, and the proposed $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376) each set aside historic investments in clean energy. The...more