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We have been asked by NRG, an independent power producer (IPP), to evaluate options for achieving resource adequacy more efficiently in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) footprint.

FERC took steps in a recent Order and Policy Statement to improve collaboration with states on electric transmission development and to promote use of alternative models for project development by states and transmission providers.

On September 30, 2011, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation ("NERC") submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC" or "Commission") a petition requesting approval of new reliability enforcement mechanisms in Docket No. RC11-6-000 ("Petition" or "Initiative").

On July 28, 2021, President Biden issued a "National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems" (the "ICS Memo").

For years, we've heard about the utility of the future, a consumer-centric company that lets consumers "stream" clean energy into their homes as easily as they stream movies to their TVs.

The Biden administration is setting ambitious renewable energy goals and is charting a path toward a clean power-generation future.

Eulogies proliferate for “electricity deregulation.”

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued six show cause orders targeting Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators, demanding they justify or reform their interconnection rules for large energy users. As electricity demand surges from data centers and manufacturing facilities, FERC is taking unprecedented action to accelerate how these major consumers connect to the electric grid.

On March 4, 2026, the White House released the Ratepayer Protection Pledge (the Pledge), a nonbinding commitment wherein seven leading tech companies agree to "build, bring, or buy"...

The environmental permitting landscape for data centers is shifting rapidly, with federal and state regulators often pulling in opposite directions. The Trump Administration has moved to accelerate federal environmental review and to open federal lands for data center siting, while states and localities have responded by tightening scrutiny of the energy, water, and land use impacts of these facilities.

Entities doing business with a customer that files for bankruptcy protection generally have the right to refuse to continue providing goods or services to the chapter 11 debtor, unless such goods or services are covered by a continuing contract, in which case any forfeiture of the debtor’s rights under the agreement is generally prohibited to afford the debtor a reasonable opportunity to decide what to do with the contract.

On September 21, 2021, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued the latest single in its anthology of decisions regulating the relationship between incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs)...

GOP Presidential Candidate Donald Trump made several sweeping promises while on the campaign trail vowing to reopen shuttered mines and bring coal back to its dominance of a decade ago.

Bankruptcies are often zero-sum games in which every dollar recovered by one creditor amounts to a dollar lost by another creditor.

Eyes on Energy Tax Update is a regular publication of the Holland & Knight Renewable and Alternative Energy Tax Team that provides highlights of important developments.

Important energy issues continue to arise at the intersection of law and policy in California. Here are eight hot topics that require the attention of entities with interests in California's energy sector.

Kentucky's Senate Bill 57 establishes a comprehensive Nuclear Reactor Site Readiness Pilot Program, offering grants up to $25 million to utilities and partners for securing federal permits to construct advanced nuclear facilities. The legislation creates a detailed framework for eligibility, cost recovery, and forfeiture provisions while positioning Kentucky to develop a nuclear energy ecosystem through strategic incentives and regulatory support.

With DER Aggregations, non-NEM DER participations, and Reliability Standards involving invertor-based DERs, such disputes should involve more, and more complex, issues.