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On March 31, 2025, FERC signaled that it will rule on ISO New England’s proposed interconnection reforms this week—on or before Friday, April 4. In May 2024, ISO New England filed proposed tariff revisions at FERC in...more
Small modular reactors (SMRs) can be collocated with high demand customers such as data centers and large manufacturing and chemical facilities to provide electric energy and capacity to them directly. Behind-the-meter...more
On October 17, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued Order No. 904, finding on a generic basis that allowing transmission providers to charge customers for a generating facility’s provision of...more
On November 1, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected an amended interconnection agreement filed by PJM Interconnection for the Susquehanna nuclear station, which would have permitted an increase in...more
On October 17, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order No. 904, Compensation for Reactive Power Within the Standard Power Factor Range, 188 FERC ¶ 61,034 (2024) (Final Rule). With this Final Rule,...more
Summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's monthly open meeting to be held on June 27, 2024, pursuant to the sunshine notice released on June 20, 2024. ...more
At its May 13, 2024 open meeting, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved a groundbreaking final rule—Order No. 1920 —requiring public utilities to undertake new long-term regional transmission planning over...more
The country’s electric system is undergoing its most significant transformation in over a century. The information age is skyrocketing demand from customers for more power, and renewable energy is being deployed at a dizzying...more
Summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's monthly open meeting to be held on May 23, 2024, pursuant to the sunshine notice released on May 16, 2024. ...more
It’s a busy time for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (the “Commission” or “FERC”). In March 2024, FERC issued Order No. 2023-A upholding its major generator interconnection reform order, Order No. 2023. FERC followed...more
On May 8, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) released a preliminary list of potential National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors (“NIETCs”), representing another step forward in DOE’s efforts to effectuate...more
On March 21, 2024, FERC issued Order No. 2023-A, in which it acted on requests for rehearing or clarification related to nearly all of its landmark reforms to the pro forma generator interconnection processes (GIP) and...more
Update: Order No. 2023-A was published in the Federal Register on April 16, 2024. Compliance filings to Order Nos. 2023 and 2023-A are due on May 16, 2023 The electric industry is in the midst of a period of significant...more
The electric industry is in the midst of a period of significant growth and change. Last year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued its landmark Order No. 2023 that enacted sweeping reforms to...more
As part of its continuing efforts to streamline the generator interconnection process and address the nationwide backlog of interconnection requests, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has responded to requests...more
Interconnection reform is coming to New York State—right on (a slightly revised) schedule. In response to the issuance of a rehearing and clarification order on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) Order No. 2023...more
On March 21, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) in Docket No. RM22-2 that proposes to prohibit transmission providers from allowing generating...more
On March 21, 2024, FERC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) to revise its reactive power compensation rules to limit compensation to interconnection customers to times when the transmission provider asks the...more
On 21 March 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order No. 2023-A, rehearing and clarifying its landmark generator interconnection reform final rule. Order No. 2023-A largely upheld the...more
On March 21, 2024, FERC issued a follow up rehearing order to its landmark Order No. 2023 generator interconnection reform rule, providing several clarifications and tweaks in response to industry comments. Improvements to...more
On Friday, March 15, 2024, the NYISO hosted what is expected to be the last of its Interconnection Issues Task Force (“IITF”) meetings before making its FERC Order No. 2023 compliance filing on April 3, and it was clear that...more
Two FERC Commissioners are asking electric transmission providers to introduce “cure periods” into their interconnection procedures, hoping to reduce the likelihood that energy projects are thrown back to the start of the...more
On October 25, 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order extending the deadline for Transmission Providers to submit compliance filings to implement the requirements of FERC’s Order No. 2023, which...more
On July 28, 2023, in its first major overhaul of its standardized interconnection rules, procedures, and agreements since issuing Order No. 2003 20 years ago, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC)...more
On July 23, 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) adopted Order No. 2023, a “landmark” order, which aims to significantly improve the interconnection of new generation and energy storage projects to the...more