Electricity Law – Page 2 – Environmental and Energy Law Program

Comments Filed

Electricity Law Initiative Files Requests for Rehearing and Clarification about FERC’s New Transmission Planning Rule

ELI’s urges FERC to clarify that regional planning must consider all transmission users’ needs and that this requirement is based on FERC’s long-standing comparability principle.

June 12, 2024

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw — FERC’s New Approach to Improving Transmission Investment

How the utility industry thinks about building new high-voltage transmission lines and how FERC is trying to push industry to develop more transmission to accommodate new, affordable, clean sources of electricity.

June 11, 2024

Regulatory Tracker

Generation Interconnection Rule

FERC issued an order revising standard procedures used by utilities and regional transmission organizations for connecting generation projects to the transmission system. The D.C. Circuit will review the order.

May 16, 2024

EELP News

April 10 Webinar: State Perspectives on Power Sector Changes

EELP panel discussion with state utility regulators and policymakers exploring state approaches to maintaining a reliable, affordable, and cleaner power system.

April 4, 2024

Comments Filed

Electricity Law Initiative Responds to Utility Claims about Transmission Cartels

The Electricity Law Initiative filed a comment about the value of collaboration in transmission planning in FERC’s ongoing rulemaking proceeding.

March 1, 2024

Comments Filed

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

Legal Analysis

Replacing the Utility Transmission Syndicate’s Control

Technological progress can topple industry titans. But in the electricity industry, entrenched power can stymie disruptive change by setting rules that block competition and reinforce the status quo. In Replacing the […]

November 1, 2023

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw — Replacing the Utility Transmission Syndicate’s Control

How FERC’s legal authority shapes regional governance, how independent decisionmaking by RTOs is compromised by utilities and other incumbent firms, and why it’s holding back the industry’s innovative potential.

November 1, 2023

EELP News

The Supreme Court ends a looming legal threat to state clean energy laws

In the September/October edition of the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resource’s publication Ari discusses a May 2023 Supreme Court decision that holds the dormant Commerce Clause does […]

September 11, 2023