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Articles by Jennifer Mersing
FERC Interconnection Reform Is Full Steam Ahead
On 21 March 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order No. 2023-A, rehearing and clarifying its landmark generator interconnection reform final rule. Order No. 2023-A largely upheld the interconnections reforms adopted by FERC in Order No. 2023, subject to certain modifications and clarifications. These orders will have a significant impact on the development and deployment of new generating and storage projects.
FERC Interconnection Reform is Full Steam Ahead | JD Supra
On 21 March 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order No. 2023-A, rehearing and clarifying its landmark generator interconnection reform final rule. Order No. 2023-A largely upheld the interconnections reforms adopted by FERC in Order No. 2023, subject to certain modifications and clarifications. These orders will have a significant impact on the development and deployment of new generating and storage projects.
FERC Clarifies Landmark Generator Interconnection Reform Final Ru
On 21 March 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order No. 2023-A, rehearing and clarifying its landmark generator interconnection reform final rule. Order No. 2023-A largely upheld the interconnections reforms adopted by FERC in Order No. 2023, subject to certain modifications and clarifications. These orders will have a significant impact on the development and deployment of new generating and storage projects.
Order No. 2023: Interconnection Reform is Finally Here | JD Supra
On 28 July 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order No. 2023,1 implementing reforms to its generator interconnection agreements and procedures aimed at alleviating the backlog of generation and storage projects pending in interconnection queues throughout the country.2 Acting Chairman Willie Phillips said, “[t]he final rule is one of the largest in FERC’s history,” and “represents the largest and most significant set of interconnection reforms since the pro forma...
Order No. 2023: Interconnection Reform Is Finally Here - Utilities - United States
On 28 July 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order No. 2023,1 implementing reforms to its generator interconnection agreements and procedures aimed at alleviating the backlog of generation and storage projects pending in interconnection queues throughout the country.2 Acting Chairman Willie Phillips said, "[t]he final rule is one of the largest in FERC's history," and "represents the largest and most significant set of interconnection reforms since the pro forma...
Order No. 2023: Interconnection Reform is Finally Here
7 September 2023 US Energy, Infrastructure, and Resources White Paper On 28 July 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order No. 2023,1 implementing reforms to its generator interconnection agreements and procedures aimed at alleviating the backlog of generation and storage projects pending in interconnection queues throughout the country.2 Acting Chairman Willie Phillips said, “[t]he final rule is one of the largest in FERC’s history,” and “represents the largest and...
Heightened Scrutiny of Director Positions by FERC and DOJ | JD Supra
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently issued orders and statements demonstrating concerns related to director positions and potentially interlocking directorates. These actions together signal greater attention paid to the identities and affiliations of directors serving on corporate boards.
Lessons To Be Learned from FERC's Investigation of a New Power Project's Participation in the New England Capacity Market | JD Supra
On 28 June 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order approving a Stipulation and Consent Agreement stemming from an enforcement investigation with Salem Harbor Power Development, LP (Salem Harbor or DevCo) in Docket No. IN18-18.1 Around a week prior to FERC issuing its Order, grid operator ISO New England, Inc.
Lessons to Be Learned from FERC's Investigation of A New Power Project's Participation in The New England Capacity Market
On 28 June 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order approving a Stipulation and Consent Agreement stemming from an enforcement investigation with Salem Harbor Power Development, LP (Salem Harbor or DevCo) in Docket No. IN18-18.1 Around a week prior to FERC issuing its Order, grid operator ISO New England, Inc.
Unclogging the Interconnection Queues – FERC Proposes Interconnection Reform | JD Supra
At its open meeting on 16 June 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on interconnection reform in response to its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection (ANOPR) (Docket No. RM21-17).
FERC Moves Forward on Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation Reform | JD Supra
At its open meeting on 21 April 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) in response to its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection (Docket No. RM21-17). Commissioner Mark Christie and Commissioner Willie Phillips entered separate concurrences, while Commissioner James Danly dissented.
FERC Prepares to Launch Long-Awaited MBR Relational Database | JD Supra
Significant changes to the market-based rate (MBR) program administered by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will begin rolling out in the next couple of weeks. In Order No. 860 (FERC Docket No. RM16-17), FERC established a new requirement for MBR sellers to submit a variety of information into a new “relational database.” While the roll-out of this new MBR database was delayed by six months due to COVID, the database is now set to launch on 1 April 2021.
FERC acts to narrow PURPA yet again
In this legal update regarding the implementation of FERC Order No. 872, Jason Johns, Jennifer Mersing and Jessica Bayles of Stoel Rives LLP break down the most significant changes made by the order and how they will serve to limit PURPA’s efficacy moving forward.
FERC Issues Final Rule Overhauling PURPA Regulations | JD Supra
Yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order No. 872 and implemented the largest overhaul to FERC’s regulations affecting Qualifying Facilities (QFs) in more than a decade.
D.C. Circuit Affirms FERC Order No. 841, Ensuring Storage Access to Wholesale Markets | JD Supra
On Friday, July 10, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (“D.C. Circuit”) upheld the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“FERC”) Order Nos. 841 and 841A, which established a framework for electric storage resources’ (“ESRs”) participation in wholesale markets.
A Look at Solar Net Metering Changes in 2019
The growth of rooftop solar in the U.S. has been supported substantially by state net metering programs. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandated that each utility make available, upon request, net metering service to any electric consumer that the electric utility serves.
FERC Rules on Order No. 841 Compliance Filings | JD Supra
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Ninth Circuit Strikes Down California ReMAT In Winding Creek Solar Case
On July 29, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court’s decision in Winding Creek Solar LLC v. Peterman et al., ruling that California’s feed-in tariff for small qualifying facilities (QFs), the Renewable Market Adjusting Tariff (ReMAT), violates the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) (Ninth Circuit Case No. 17-17531). ReMAT provides small QFs of three MW or less with a standard contract for energy off-take, on a first-come, first-served basis.
And Now the Second Circuit Upholds New York’s Nuclear Subsidy Program | JD Supra
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Seventh Circuit Upholds Illinois’ ZEC Program and Leaves the Door Open for State Subsidization of Generation | JD Supra
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How Should Storage be Counted? FERC Is Asked To Decide the Role of Storage in Calculating QF Capacity | JD Supra
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Helping the Hook-Up: FERC’s Generator Interconnection Procedures Reform Seeks to Improve Information Flow, Recognizes Changing Technology and Opens Further Opportunities for Storage | Stoel Rives - Renewable + Law - JDSupra
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Michigan’s PURPA Overhaul - Updating Avoided Cost Calculations And Expanding Standard Offer Contracts
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When the Big One Hits, We’ll All Be Thankful for Grid “Resiliency”
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Transaction Structuring Matters: North Carolina Rejects Third-Party Rooftop Solar Power Purchase Agreements
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Another Court Upholds a State Generation Program and Dismisses Challenges to Illinois’ Nuclear Subsidies
On July 14, 2017, and several weeks after the Second Circuit rejected challenges to Connecticut’s renewable energy procurement process and renewable energy credit program (see Allco Fin. Ltd. v. Robert J. Klee (Docket Nos. 16-2946, 16-2949)), the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed challenges brought by independent power producers and customers against Illinois’ nuclear subsidy program (Village of Old Mill Creek v. Anthony M. Star, Docket Nos. 17 CV 1163, 17 CV 1164).
Court Rejects Preemption and Dormant Commerce Clause Arguments and Upholds Connecticut’s Renewable Program
On June 28, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected challenges to Connecticut’s renewable energy procurement process and renewable energy credit program (Allco Fin. Ltd. v. Robert J. Klee (Docket Nos. 16-2946, 16-2949)). In doing so, the Second Circuit preserved the flexibility of states to enact programs to support renewable energy and became the first federal court to apply the Supreme Court’s ruling in Hughes v. Talen Energy (136 S. Ct. 1288 (2016)).
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