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1 week ago | 
mondaq.com | Stephen Hug |Emily P. Mallen |Ben Reiter |Sharmila Das
On April 8, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) directing the Department of Energy (DOE) to take steps to expand the use of its emergency authority under Federal Power Act (FPA) Section 202(c) to require the retention of generation resources deemed necessary to maintain resource adequacy within at risk-regions of the bulk power system regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).1 The EO appears to envision a more active role for DOE in overseeing and...
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1 week ago | 
mondaq.com | Stephen Hug |Emily P. Mallen |Ben Reiter |Sharmila Das
Trump Executive Order on Grid Reliability Seeks to Expand FederalRole Over Resource AdequacyDirects emergency action under section 202(c) of the FederalPower Act by streamlining and expediting the approval of ordersallowing electric generation resources to operate at maximumcapacity during times of anticipated grid failure.
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1 week ago | 
akingump.com | Emily P. Mallen |Stephen Hug |Ben Reiter |Sharmila Das
By: Emily P. Mallen, Stephen J. Hug, Ben N. Reiter, Sharmila P.
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2 weeks ago | 
akingump.com | Stephen Hug |Emily P. Mallen |Ben Reiter |Sharmila Das
By: Stephen J. Hug, Emily P. Mallen, Ben N. Reiter, Sharmila P.
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1 month ago | 
lexology.com | Emily P. Mallen |Stephen Hug |Christopher Treanor |Scott Johnson |Ben Reiter |Jameson Calitri | +1 more
On March 5, 2025, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) approved Golden Pass LNG Terminal LLC’s (GPLNG) request to extend a deadline to begin exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its terminal facility currently under construction in Sabine Pass, Texas for 18 months, from September 30, 2025, to March 31, 2027 (the Order).
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Scott Johnson |Sharmila Das |Stephen Hug
[co-author: Barbara Deathe (Senior Paralegal Specialist)]On January 6, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Final Rule to amend its regulations governing the maximum civil monetary penalties assessable for violations of statutes, rules and orders within FERC’s jurisdiction.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Stephen Hug |Emily P. Mallen |Ben Reiter |Sharmila Das
On December 16, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission(FERC or the Commission) issued an Order to Show Cause and Noticeof Proposed Penalty proposing to assess staggering civil penaltiesagainst American Efficient, LLC and its affiliates (collectively,American Efficient) in connection with an alleged scheme tomanipulate the capacity markets operated by PJM Interconnection,L.L.C. (PJM) and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Scott Johnson |Sharmila Das |Stephen Hug
[co-author: Barbara Deathe (Senior Paralegal Specialist)] On December 16, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) issued an Order to Show Cause and Notice of Proposed Penalty proposing to assess staggering civil penalties against American Efficient, LLC and its affiliates (collectively, American Efficient) in connection with an alleged scheme to manipulate the capacity markets operated by PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM) and the Midcontinent Independent System...
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Rob Butler |Scott Johnson |Sharmila Das
On November 27, 2024, in Venture Global, CP2 LNG, LLC,1 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC or Commission) explicitly overruled precedent set in Northern Natural Gas Co.,2 a 2021 decision in which FERC made an affirmative finding that an interstate natural gas pipeline project it was certificating under section 7 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) would not make a “significant” contribution to global climate change.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Scott Johnson |Sharmila Das |Stephen Hug
On November 21, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued Order No. 1920-A1 addressing requests for rehearing and clarification of FERC’s landmark final rule on transmission planning and cost allocation issued in May 2024. While the Commission largely affirmed the final rule, the order grants rehearing of some of the more controversial aspects of Order No. 1920.
