On February 27, 2025, FERC granted a complaint filed by BP Energy Retail Company California LLC (“BP Energy” or “Company”) under sections 206 and 306 of the Federal Power Act appealing a penalty the California Independent System Operator Corporation (“CAISO”) assessed against BP Energy under a section of CAISO’s Open
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FERC Denies Great Basin Transmission’s Request for Transmission Rate Incentives
By Alex Spratley & Dixon Wallace on
Posted in FERC Practice, Transmission
On February 20, 2025, FERC denied Great Basin Transmission, LLC’s (“Great Basin”) request for two transmission incentives for Great Basin’s Southwest Intertie Project-North Transmission Line and associated upgrades to Great Basin’s existing One Nevada Transmission Line (together, the “Project”). FERC found that Great Basin did not demonstrate that the Project…
FERC Reinstates Authorization for Transco Pipeline Expansion Project
By Alex Spratley & S. Jennifer Panahi on
Posted in FERC Practice, Natural Gas
On January 24, 2025, FERC reinstated a certificate of public convenience and necessity (“CPCN”) for Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company’s (“Transco”) Regional Energy Access Expansion Project (“Project”) after the D.C. Circuit vacated and remanded FERC’s initial order certificating the Project (“Certificate Order”).
In January 2023, FERC granted Transco a CPCN…
President Trump Names Christie as FERC Chairman and Signs Energy-Related Executive Orders
By Alex Spratley & Antonia Douglas on
Posted in FERC Practice
On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. On his first day in office, President Trump signed various executive orders effectuating administrative and policy changes across the federal government, including naming a new FERC Chairman and declaring a national energy emergency.…
FERC Holds Technical Conference on Large Loads Co-Locating at Generating Facilities
By Alex Spratley, Ben Duwve & Elizabeth McCormick on
Posted in Data Centers, FERC Practice
On November 1, 2024, FERC Commissioners led a technical conference at their headquarters in Washington, DC, on issues pertaining to co-locating large loads at generating facilities. FERC Commissioners asked questions of individuals across the energy industry into how large loads, and data centers in particular, are impacting the grid and…
FERC Rejects Co-Located Load Increase Proposal at Nuclear Facility
By Alex Spratley & Russell Kooistra on
Posted in Data Centers, FERC Practice
On November 1, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) rejected an amended Interconnection Service Agreement (“ISA”) filed by PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”) that proposed increasing the co-located data center load at a Susquehanna Nuclear, LLC (“Susquehanna”) nuclear generating facility. FERC held that PJM did not meet FERC’s “high burden”…
FERC Denies CPower’s Complaint Requesting Revisions to PJM’s Tariff Governing Curtailment Service Providers
By Alex Spratley & Mary-Kate Rigney on
Posted in FERC Practice
On September 19, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) denied Enerwise Global Technologies, LLC’s (“CPower”) complaint against PJM Interconnection, LLC (“PJM”) alleging that PJM’s Open Access Transmission Tariff (“Tariff”) was unjust, unreasonable, and unduly discriminatory because it prevents Curtailment Service Providers (“CSP”) from using approved statistical sampling rules to…
FERC Holds Workshop on Innovations & Efficiencies in Generator Interconnection Process, Seeks Comments
On September 10 and 11, 2024, FERC staff held a two-day workshop at its headquarters in Washington, DC on opportunities to further refine the generator interconnection queue process. Panelists and FERC staff discussed potential enhancements to transmission planning and processing interconnection requests over the course of six panels on discrete…