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FERC’s policy shift drew lots of attention — both for its substance and for the way it was announced.

“It seemed very strategic to try to evade opposition and scrutiny,” said Ari Peskoe, director of Harvard Law School’s electricity law program.

“‘FERC commissioners must be impartial adjudicators, but as a matter of law Mr. McNamee is incapable of meeting that standard with regard to matters that he worked on while serving as an attorney at the Department of Energy,’ said Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard Law School.

Peskoe said McNamee must ‘immediately recuse himself’ from a request for rehearing of FERC’s January order rejecting DOE’s proposed rule to bail out nuclear and coal plants and the docket on resilience in organized electricity markets.”

“Federal regulators Monday approved a proposal from the New England grid operator to value the ‘fuel secure’ nature of an Exelon Corp. power plant in Massachusetts.

‘I think this is the first time they’ve ordered that sort of contract,’ said Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard Law School.”