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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

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

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw Quick Take — Good News for Clean Energy from the Supreme Court

How a case about a California law regulating sales of pork products will help insulate state clean energy laws from certain types of legal challenges.

June 7, 2023

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 Presents at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Meeting

On November 15, 2022 Ari participated in a panel discussion at the annual meeting of state utility commissioners in New Orleans. The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) event […]

November 20, 2022

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw—Current Challenges and Opportunities for Electric Transmission, with Ari Peskoe and Hannah Oakes

Director of our Electricity Law Initiative Ari Peskoe spoke with Staff Attorney Hannah Oakes about electric transmission regulation and how it has disincentivized regional transmission build out. They discuss Ari’s […]

October 30, 2022