Electricity Law – Page 6 – Environmental and Energy Law Program

Comments Filed

Electricity Law Initiative Files Comment in Opposition to Net Metering Petition

June 15, 2020

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Ari Peskoe Talks about Attacks on Net Metering for Rooftop Solar

Ari describes a FERC petition that would stall the growth of rooftop solar and other small-scale generation and a petition that ELI and others filed in opposition to the petition.

June 10, 2020

Electricity Law Initiative Explores Utility Withdrawal from ISO-NE

Download the memo. Across the Northeast and Midwest, state officials are expressing frustration with recent FERC decisions that make achieving state energy policy goals more expensive and are looking for […]

April 6, 2020

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Ari Peskoe and Joe Goffman Talk about the FERC PJM Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) Order

Joe Goffman interviews Ari Peskoe about the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s December, 2019 order on PJM’s capacity auction.

January 27, 2020

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Ari Peskoe with Jason Burwen on Electricity Markets and Storage

Ari Peskoe talks with Jason Burwen, vice president for policy at the US Energy Storage Association. They discuss new electricity market rules that aim to pay storage resources for the value they provide to our energy system.

January 15, 2020

In the Media
Utility Dive

FERC’s clean energy boycott distorts PJM prices and discards history

FERC’s recent decision setting new rules for PJM’s capacity auction will exclude clean energy resources from PJM’s procurement and force PJM to buy more capacity than it needs to keep the lights on. While claiming to act in defense of market integrity, FERC overrides consumer and policy preferences for clean energy and rigs PJM’s auction process to benefit a particular class of investors.

January 9, 2020

FERC’s Clean Energy Boycott Distorts PJM Prices and Discards History

This article appeared in UtilityDive on January 7, 2019. FERC’s recent decision setting new rules for PJM’s capacity auction will exclude clean energy resources from PJM’s procurement and force PJM […]

January 7, 2020

Comments Filed

Electricity Law Initiative Comments on Proposed Repeal of FERC Rule that Facilitates Investment in Renewables

The Electricity Law Initiative filed a comment about the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s proposed revisions to its rules implementing section 210 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 […]

December 3, 2019

Legal Analysis

Energy Policy in the Age of Emergency Governance: New White Paper from Sharon Jacobs and Ari Peskoe

We live in an age of governance by emergency. In February, President Trump declared a national emergency to build a wall on the southern border after lawmakers repeatedly denied his […]

June 3, 2019