Battery/Storage

Pass the Salt: A Sodium-Iron Battery BreakthroughVanadium Has Entered the Chat

Data Centers

FERC Orders Regional Grid Operators to Justify or Reform Tariff Provisions for Interconnection of Large LoadsFERC Addresses Arguments on Rehearing and Requires Additional PJM Tariff Revisions to Accommodate Co-Located Load

Environmental Law

D.C. Circuit Declines to Reconsider its Prior Order Restoring an Emergency Affirmative Defense for Emissions Violations Under the Clean Air ActTexas Receives Class VI Primacy: What CCS Developers Need to Know

FERC Enforcement

FERC Orders American Efficient to Pay $1.1 Billion for Alleged Capacity Market FraudCourt Denies Injunction Seeking to Halt FERC Enforcement Proceedings

FERC Practice

FERC Denies Complaint Against PJM Relating to Interconnection Study Cycle 01FERC Accepts and Suspends PJM’s Reliability Backstop Procurement Proposal, Establishes Paper Hearing Procedures, and Encourages a New Section 205 Filing

Generation

FERC Accepts and Suspends PJM’s Reliability Backstop Procurement Proposal, Establishes Paper Hearing Procedures, and Encourages a New Section 205 FilingFERC Modifies Bear Swamp Hydropower License Condition Governing Whitewater Releases to Address Grid Reliability Concerns

Hydropower

FERC Modifies Bear Swamp Hydropower License Condition Governing Whitewater Releases to Address Grid Reliability ConcernsFERC Streamlines Reviews to Expedite Actions at Hydropower Projects

Interconnection

FERC Denies Complaint Against PJM Relating to Interconnection Study Cycle 01FERC Directs NERC to Submit Rules Addressing Risks Associated with Integration of Computational Loads into Bulk Power System

Legislation

Senators Introduce REWIRE Act of 2026 to Address Electric Grid Capacity and PlanningSenate Proposes Bill to Exempt Isolated Large Loads from Federal Regulation

Market Policy

FERC Accepts and Suspends PJM’s Reliability Backstop Procurement Proposal, Establishes Paper Hearing Procedures, and Encourages a New Section 205 FilingFERC Approves Changes to ISO-NE’s Day-Ahead Ancillary Services Market

Natural Gas

D.C. Circuit Rejects Pipeline Customers’ Due Process Challenge to FERC Certificate OrderFERC Denies Gas Plant Developer’s Waiver Request to Change Equipment Due to Procurement Concerns

Podcasts

Pass the Salt: A Sodium-Iron Battery BreakthroughVanadium Has Entered the Chat

PURPA

Divided Panel of the D.C. Circuit Upholds FERC's Interpretation of PURPA Size Limitations Based on "Send Out" CapacityNinth Circuit Finds that PURPA Gives FERC Broad Implementation Discretion, But Remands New Qualifying Facility Rules for Lack of NEPA Review

Reliability

FERC Approves New Reliability Standards to Improve Physical Security Assessment at Transmission FacilitiesFERC Approves Dual Transmission Rate Incentives for Empire District’s $800 Million SPP Transmission Portfolio

Renewables

Court Vacates FERC “Soft” Cap Refund Order Issued After 2020 California Heat WaveFueling Up: How to Make U.S. Clean Hydrogen Projects Happen

Rulemakings

FERC Streamlines Reviews to Expedite Actions at Hydropower ProjectsFERC Directs NERC to Submit Rules Addressing Risks Associated with Integration of Computational Loads into Bulk Power System

Transmission

DOE Awards $1.9 Billion in SPARK Funding for Grid Modernization ProjectsFERC Approves Dual Transmission Rate Incentives for Empire District’s $800 Million SPP Transmission Portfolio

Uncategorized

FERC Commits to June 2026 Action in Large Load Interconnection RulemakingDOE Proposes to Limit NEPA Review for Transmission, Storage, and Solar