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AI, Data Centers and Electric Energy

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AI driven electric demand is forcing utilities to rethink their approach to connecting new data center customers to the grid. Until quite recently, many utilities had generating capacity to sell and competed for new...more

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Cumulative United States Utility-Scale Battery Power Capacity: U.S. Energy Information Administration Report Addresses 2011-2025...

The United States Energy Information Administration (“EIA”) issued a March 12th report titled: Cumulative U.S. utility-scale battery power capacity (2011-2025) (“Report”). The Report provides statistics for United...more

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FERC Meeting Agenda Summaries for March 2025

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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 March 13, at 10:00 a.m. ET. The summaries below are based on publicly...more

Morgan Lewis

State by State: An Updated Roadmap Through the Current US Energy Storage Policy Landscape

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Energy storage resources have become an increasingly important component of the energy mix as traditional fossil fuel baseload energy resources transition to renewable energy sources. Currently 23 states, plus the District of...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Gold Dome Report - Legislative Day 23 - February 2025

Look out biscuits — cornbread is making a comeback in the Georgia State Capitol. After failing to fully bake in the State Senate in 2024, legislation designating cornbread as the official state bread (HB 14) returned to the...more

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FERC Announces Commissioner-led Technical Conference on Resource Adequacy in RTOs/ISOs

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On February 20, 2025, FERC Chairman Mark Christie announced an upcoming Commissioner-led technical conference on resource adequacy in Regional Transmission Organization (“RTO”) and Independent System Operator (“ISO”) regions....more

McGuireWoods LLP

FERC Approves Expansion of PJM’s Surplus Interconnection Service to Address Near-Term Resource Adequacy Concerns

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On Feb. 11, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order accepting PJM Interconnection’s proposed revisions to its Open Access Transmission Tariff (Tariff) regarding surplus interconnection service...more

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H.B. 15 Proposes Largescale Changes to Ohio’s Energy Landscape

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Ohio legislators just unveiled a plan to address forecasts that Ohio could face an energy shortfall in the near future. Introduced on Thursday, January 23, 2025. H.B. 15, sponsored by Rep. Roy Klopfenstein (R-Haviland),...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Power Infrastructure: The New Driver of Industrial Site Selection

For decades, the availability and cost of labor dominated industrial site selection decisions in the United States. Today, however, a new factor has emerged as equally crucial: power infrastructure. The rise of...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Unpacking Massachusetts' New Clean Energy Law

Last week, Governor Healey signed “an Act promoting a clean energy grid, advancing equity, and protecting ratepayers” into law. The legislation includes changes in the way energy infrastructure is sited and permitted,...more

Baker Donelson

North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Unveils New Solar Management Regulations

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North Carolina enacted legislation in 2023 that imposes new state-level decommissioning and financial assurance requirements on owners of utility-scale solar projects. S.L. 2023-58. All utility-scale solar project owners will...more

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Developer Perspectives on Today’s Energy Storage Markets

In 2023, the world added an impressive 45 gigawatts/97 gigawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, nearly tripling year-on-year growth, with the majority driven by battery storage installations. The global energy storage...more

K&L Gates LLP

Order No. 2023: Interconnection Reform is Finally Here

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On 28 July 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order No. 2023, implementing reforms to its generator interconnection agreements and procedures aimed at alleviating the backlog of generation and...more

Holland & Knight LLP

The Final Content of California's Budget-Revised Infrastructure and CEQA Reform Trailer Bills

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As stated in Holland & Knight's recent alert detailing Gov. Gavin Newsom's package of 11 bills to amend the venerable California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), meaningful reforms to CEQA have eluded all past governors in...more

Downey Brand LLP

“It just so happens that [Governor Newsom’s Sweeping New Plan to Accelerate Infrastructure Projects] is only mostly dead.” –...

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Governor Gavin Newsom announced proposed major new infrastructure permitting reforms on May 19, 2023 in an effort to create thousands of jobs and build California’s clean energy future. The eleven-bill package seeks to...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Key Takeaways for the Energy Industry from the 2023 Texas Legislative Session: What Passed and What Failed

Monday, May 29, 2023, marked the official end of the 88th regular session of the Texas Legislature. It was an especially active session for the energy industry, which saw the passage of several bills that, if signed into law...more

Stoel Rives - Renewable + Law

CPUC Opens Rulemaking to Streamline Permitting Procedures for Electrical Facilities

During its May 18 voting meeting, the California Public Utilities Commission (Commission) voted to open a new rulemaking proceeding that will consider improvements to its permitting procedures for electric infrastructure...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Western States Partner on Clean Hydrogen Hub

On Feb. 23, 2022, the governors of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming entered into a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) to develop the Western Inter-State Clean Hydrogen Hub. Hydrogen is viewed as an essential component...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Resources ‎

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act from the U.S. Congress, signed into law November 15 by President Biden, provides $1.2 trillion to rebuild roads and bridges, water infrastructure, resilience, and internet, with a...more

Stoel Rives - Renewable + Law

Reactive Power Compensation for Renewable Generators – On the Chopping Block?

On November 18, 2021, FERC issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) seeking comments on reactive power capability compensation and market design. Reactive power is a critical component of the bulk electric system. Almost all bulk...more

Jackson Walker

How the $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Affects Texas

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With President Biden signing the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law, Texas is set to receive an estimated $35.4 billion to improve infrastructure. Jackson Walker attorneys Amanda Crouch and Kate Goodrich walk through...more

K&L Gates LLP

The Hydrogen Handbook - United States

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Hydrogen—the smallest molecule, but one that holds the potential to be an energy superhero and play a significant role in reducing carbon emissions and slowing climate change. The H2 Handbook provides a comprehensive...more

Nossaman LLP

University of Iowa Vows to Go Green with its Utility Public-Private Partnership

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The University of Iowa has entered into a 50-year utility public-private partnership (P3), engaging a private partner to operate, maintain, optimize, and improve the University’s existing utility system and help the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Renewable Alert Letter 38: 32-40 yen Projects: The Risk of Lower Applicable Procurement Prices – Revised Outline From METI

On December 5, 2018, METI announced its "New Measures for Non Operational PV Projects under the FIT Scheme (Outline of Revisions)" to revise proposals it presented in October 2018 regarding new rules to substantially cut...more

Mayer Brown

Renewable Energy Finance Forum Wall Street Soundbites: the Tax Equity, Debt and M&A Markets, etc.

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The soundbites are edited for clarity and are organized by topic, rather than in chronological order. The topics covered include the tax equity, debt and M&A markets, C&I solar, offshore wind, bonus depreciation,...more

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