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In November 2023, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) issued a proposed policy statement to encourage Pennsylvania’s electric distribution companies (EDCs) to develop distribution and default service rate...more
The Georgia Supreme Court has denied a request by Sawnee EMC to take up and consider a final appeal in a long-running lawsuit over the right to serve an electric vehicle (EV) charging station. The case arose from Georgia...more
Recent decisions by the Maine Legislature and the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) may affect participants in Maine’s Net Energy Billing (NEB) Program...more
On Tuesday, February 11, 2025, Senate President Pro Tempore Bill Reineke (R-Tiffin) unveiled the Senate’s energy legislation, S.B. 2. As expected, there are similarities to H.B. 15, introduced by Rep. Roy Klopfenstein...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
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
The IRA provides a suite of federal incentives and funding opportunities potentially relevant to all industry participants, including public utilities, public utility holding companies, independent power producers, and...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) will host its November Open Meeting on Thursday, November 16, 2023. The Sunshine Act Meeting Notice issued November 9, 2023 indicates FERC’s intent to act on several...more
Clean energy technology has been on the rise. As companies strive to become more sustainable and the cost of manufacturing renewable energy continues to decline, we’re taking a look at the driving factors behind the shift...more
Comments for FERC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Fuel Cell Energy Output (“NOPR”) are due tomorrow, November 25, 2020. In the NOPR, FERC proposes to modify its regulations for qualifying facility (“QF”) status under the...more
A petition filed in April by the New England Ratepayers Association (NERA) has requested that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reassess its authority over retail solar sales, stating that the federal...more
On March 20, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking in Docket No. RM20-10-000 to revise its regulations regarding transmission incentives for electric utilities....more
The 2020 Regular Session of the West Virginia Legislature recently passed the one-third mark and, as of this writing, the House has introduced 1155 bills, while the Senate introduced 656. We will continue reporting on and...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) seeking comments on proposed revisions to regulations that implement the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA)....more
On July 30, 2019, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal panel unanimously held that the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act (PURPA) preempts two components of California's Renewable Market Adjusting Tariff (Re-MAT)...more
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) approved applications submitted by PSEG Nuclear LLC seeking subsidies of up to $300 million annually, in the form of zero emission credits (ZECs), for PSEG’s Hope Creek and Salem...more
On September 19, 2018, the Connecticut Public Utility Regulatory Authority (PURA) issued a declaratory ruling requested by Solar Connecticut, Inc. that existing net-metering rules would continue for existing distributed...more
In a decision issued last week, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted summary judgment in favor of Winding Creek Solar LLC (“Winding Creek”). Winding Creek had alleged that certain California...more
A recent North Carolina Court of Appeals decision, State of North Carolina ex. rel. Utilities Commission, et. al. v. N.C. Waste Awareness and Reduction Network (NC WARN), affirming an order of the North Carolina Utilities...more
On June 16, 2016, FERC issued Order No. 827, which requires transmission-owning public utilities to revise their open access transmission tariffs to establish reactive power requirements for new interconnecting...more