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Electricity Law Initiative Files Comment on FERC’s Federal-State Joint Task Force

The Electricity Law Initiative filed a comment at FERC suggesting that it dedicate the next meeting of its joint task force with state regulators on transmission development to discussing regional […]

January 8, 2024

Electricity Law Initiative Files Comments on FERC Transmission Oversight

This week the Electricity Law Initiative filed comments in a FERC proceeding about transmission rates and planning processes. The comments respond to questions issued by FERC following an October 2022 […]

March 24, 2023

Ari Peskoe Testifies at FERC Technical Conference on Transmission Planning and Costs, Files Statement and Evidence

On October 6, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) convened utilities, consumer advocates, state regulators, transmission customers, and other policy experts to discuss transmission rate oversight. The five-panel technical conference […]

October 12, 2022

Electricity Law Initiative Director Authors Brief for 26 Law Professors

Electricity Law Initiative Director Ari Peskoe filed an amicus brief in the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals that was signed by 26 energy law professors. Co-written with University of […]

August 12, 2022

Electricity Law Initiative Responds to FERC Inquiry on Utility Trade Associations

In February, the Electricity Law Initiative filed a comment at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) arguing that FERC’s rules force ratepayers to subsidize utilities’ political advocacy, which is unfair […]

March 10, 2022

Electricity Law Initiative Comments on FERC Transmission Proposal

Last week, the Electricity Law Initiative filed comments in response to an inquiry by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) about our nation’s high-voltage interstate transmission infrastructure. FERC’s Advanced Notice of Proposed […]

October 18, 2021

Electricity Law Initiative Files in FERC Proceeding about State Clean Energy Policies

The Electricity Law Initiative urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to reject generation companies’ and trade associations’ arguments that it must leave in place market rules that hamstring state […]

September 3, 2021

Electricity Law Initiative Suggests New FERC Office Monitor RTOs

The Electricity Law Initiative filed a comment about FERC’s Office of Public Participation. Congress created the Office in 1978, charging it with “coordinating assistance to the public with respect to […]

May 7, 2021

Electricity Law Initiative Files Comment in Opposition to Net Metering Petition

On behalf of 25 Electricity Regulation Scholars, Electricity Law Initiative Director Ari Peskoe and Professor Jim Rossi of Vanderbilt University Law School filed a comment at FERC opposing a petition […]

June 15, 2020