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Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects involve various legal issues. Like traditional exploration and development, CCUS projects require the operator to secure both the...

On April 11, 2006, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC" or the "Commission") Administrative Law Judge Herbert Grossman ("ALJ") issued an initial decision in the AES v. FGT proceeding.

In an October 30, 2017 letter to the then-Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), 17 members of the U.S. House of Representatives ...

In spite of the recent uncertainty over whether the Build Back Better Act will become law in any form resembling that passed by the House in Fall 2021, electric vehicle ("EV") charging infrastructure may still...

Under PG&E's proposed program, EV batteries would be used to supply electricity to serve local demand at its charging location via onboard AC power electronics and garage-installed DC smart inverters.

In <EM>Southern California Edison Company v. Public Utilities Commission</EM>, issued April 4, 2005, the Second District California Court of Appeal upheld several decisions by the California Public Utilities Commission ("CPUC") requiring Southern California Edison Company ("Edison") to enter into wholesale power contracts at administratively determined prices with certain generators known as "qualifying facilities."

December 31, 2023 marks the final deadline for compliance with the first year of New Jersey's building energy and water benchmarking law.

Parties appealing agency orders often assert the agency failed to provide a reasoned explanation for its decision. This is typically an uphill battle.

Yesterday, the staff of the California Air Resources Board ("CARB") released a much anticipated Draft Scoping Plan for implementing the state's landmark law on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Assembly Bill 32 (the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, or AB 32). CARB's Chairman, Mary D. Nichols, identified the draft as the most significant step taken to date towards "unprecedented" and "sweeping" regulation of the California economy's impact

In <I>Lockyer v. Mirant Corporation</I>, __ F.3d __, 2005 WL 310897 (February 10, 2005), the Ninth Circuit allowed an antitrust claim brought by Attorney General Bill Lockyer against Mirant to move forward despite Mirant’s pending Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The Trump administration has issued new rules limiting access to certain foreign-produced grid equipment, creating uncertainty and potential delays for utilities and project developers. More clarity is necessary about what specific equipment will be prohibited on top of a recent Federal Communications Commission ban on foreign power inverters.

On March 18, 2010, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) issued several orders that portend a significant expansion of FERC control over the development and drafting of mandatory Reliability Standards by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC).

On June 17, FERC took two actions intended to facilitate greater coordination with and between state regulators on electric transmission policy and development.

On July 21, 2016, FERC issued a declaratory order related to a qualifying facility's right to sell its capacity and energy pursuant to a legally enforceable obligation under the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act of 1978.

On December 18, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued its ruling in Calpine Corp. v. FERC and affirmed FERC’s conclusion that it does not have the authority to regulate public-utility charges to independent generators for the generators’ use of station power.

On July 13, 2016, FERC issued an order partially lifting a long-standing pricing limitation for energy exports from the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. ("MISO") to the PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.

FERC issued an order that is anticipated to increase the ability of electric cooperatives and municipally owned utilities to purchase power from renewable resources...