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Duane Morris LLP
over 6 years ago
Fracking and Alternative Energy
Fracking and Alternative Energy Blog
Duane Morris LLP: FERC Green-lights Puerto Rico Offshore LNG Import Terminal; Project's Ocean-Going Regasification Unit Is First of Its Kind Before the FERC
This project afforded the FERC with its first opportunity to make a jurisdictional determination concerning an ocean-going Floating Storage and Regasification Unit. | On July 24, 2015, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued its authorization...
Troutman Sanders
over 7 years ago
Fracking and Alternative Energy
Fracking and Alternative Energy Blog
Troutman Sanders: FERC Approves Novel NOA Amendment To Address Network Upgrades Required Solely To Accommodate QFs Siting In Constrained Areas
In an order issued May 21, 2015, FERC approved an amendment to PacifiCorp’s Network Operating Agreement (“NOA”) between PacifiCorp and its merchant function, PacifiCorp Energy, allowing for a new planning redispatch protocol. The amendment...
Troutman Sanders
over 7 years ago
Fracking and Alternative Energy
Fracking and Alternative Energy Blog
Troutman Sanders: FERC Offers EPA Advice On Commission’s Potential Role In Clean Power Plan
On May 15, 2015, the FERC commissioners sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) addressing two areas where FERC could contribute to maintaining reliability under EPA’s Clean Power Plan (“CPP”). FERC’s...
Troutman Sanders
over 6 years ago
Fracking and Alternative Energy
Fracking and Alternative Energy Blog
Troutman Sanders LLP: FERC Reaffirms Reservation Charge Crediting Policy; Orders Changes to Gas Pipeline Tariff’s Crediting, Force Majeure and Interruption of Service Provisions
On October 15, 2015, FERC issued an order to Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC rejecting claims that FERC had failed to make specific factual findings to support its conclusion that the existing absence of reservation charge crediting provisions in Algonquin’s...
Babst Calland
over 6 years ago
Fracking and Alternative Energy
Fracking and Alternative Energy Blog
Babst Calland: Application for Mountain Valley Pipeline Filed with FERC
By Nikolas E. Tysiak According to the Washington Observer-Reporter , a formal application for the Mountain Valley Pipeline was filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) last week. The pipeline will extend 301 miles and...
Troutman Sanders
over 6 years ago
Fracking and Alternative Energy
Fracking and Alternative Energy Blog
Troutman Sanders LLP: FERC Issues Order Addressing Policies and Procedures for Market-Based Rate Applications for Natural Gas Storage
On October 15, 2015, FERC issued Opinion No. 538 denying ANR Storage Company’s (“ANRS”) application for market-based rates (“MBR”) for natural gas storage service. FERC noted that the matter was the first fully-litigated...
Troutman Sanders
over 6 years ago
Fracking and Alternative Energy
Fracking and Alternative Energy Blog
Troutman Sanders: AWEA Petitions FERC to Significantly Reform Pro Forma Generator Interconnection Procedures and Agreement
On July 7, 2015, the Commission issued a notice calling for comments on a Petition for Rulemaking filed by the American Wind Energy Association (“AWEA”) on June 19, 2015 in Docket No. RM15-21-000. In its petition, AWEA requested that the Commission...
J. Wylie Donald
over 7 years ago
Environmental
Clean Air and Clean Water
A View from the FERC - Part III - Time to Keep the Lights On
By Tricia Caliguire Last week, FERC held the eastern regional technical conference on “Environmental Regulations and Electric Reliability, Wholesale Electricity Markets, and Energy Infrastructure.” The purpose was for the commissioners...
J. Wylie Donald
over 7 years ago
Environmental
Clean Air and Clean Water
The Clean Power Plan: A View from FERC, Part II - Infrastructure
By Tricia Caliguire Because I had a seat inside the meeting room at FERC's Clean Power Plan Overview last month, I got a close-up view of the protesters. Most were older (as opposed to the college-student variety), they carried signs, wore matching...
J. Wylie Donald
over 7 years ago
Environmental
Clean Air and Clean Water
The Clean Power Plan: A View from FERC
By J. Wylie Donald It was innocuous enough: Conference on Environmental Regulations; but the plainness of title belied what was going on at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at the first public forum at FERC on EPA's Clean Power Plan...
J. Wylie Donald
over 7 years ago
Environmental
Clean Air and Clean Water
The Clean Power Plan: A View from FERC, Part IV - Economic v. Environmental Dispatch, Please
By J. Wylie Donald It’s been a long winter in my neck of the woods and not because Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow. Pipes froze. Twice. Furnace was out overnight. Broke three shovels. So I had a particular interest this past Wednesday, March...
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
over 7 years ago
Environmental
Environmental Law and Regulation
Congressional Leaders To FERC: “Did EPA Consult with You About Its Clean Power Plan?”
You are probably well aware of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) Clean Power Plan. You may not be aware that Congressional leaders are asking very pointed questions to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”...
Troutman Sanders
over 6 years ago
Energy
Energy Law Blog
Troutman Sanders LLP: Supreme Court Grants Certiorari of Cases Involving FERC’s Authority Over State Capacity Programs
On October 19, 2015, the United States Supreme Court (“Supreme Court”) granted certiorari for a consolidated case involving the limits of FERC’s jurisdiction when regulating state capacity programs. The cases— Hughes v. PPL EnergyPlus...
Troutman Sanders
over 6 years ago
Energy
Energy Law Blog
Troutman Sanders: FERC Dismisses WIRES’ Petition Requesting New ROE Analysis
By Troutman Sanders LLP On September 16, 2015, the Commission dismissed a petition filed by the Working group for Investment in Reliable and Economic electric Systems (“WIRES”) in which WIRES requested that the Commission institute a generic...
Troutman Sanders
over 6 years ago
Energy
Energy Law Blog
Troutman Sanders LLP: FERC Releases 2015 Energy Primer
On July 27, 2015, FERC released its 2015 version of the Energy Primer: A Handbook of Energy Market Basics (“Energy Primer”). The Energy Primer was developed by staff from the Division of Energy Market Oversight within FERC’s Office of...
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