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Emily focuses her practice on energy regulatory matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Drawing on years of experience inside FERC’s Office of General Counsel and as legal advisor to two commissioners, Emily offers clients a deep understanding of how complex policy, technical, and legal issues are evaluated and decided within the Commission.

On December 30, 2025, ISO New England Inc. (ISO-NE) and the New England Power Pool Participants Committee (NEPOOL) filed proposed revisions to ISO-NE’s Transmission, Markets and Services Tariff (Tariff) to establish a prompt capacity market and deactivation framework (CAR-PD) to be implemented starting with the proposed framework’s first annual capacity auction cycle for the June 1, 2028 – May 31, 2029 capacity commitment period (2028/2029 Delivery Period). If accepted, the prompt capacity market will replace ISO-NE’s three-year Forward Capacity Market (FCM). ISO-NE requests that the Commission accept its proposed reforms, effective March 31, 2026.