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The Internal Revenue released new guidelines in July that should let some independent power companies get back “tax grossups” that utilities required them to pay in connection with “network upgrade ...

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On September 15, 2017 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) held that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) waived its authority to deny (or issue) a wat

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A federal appellate court rejected a challenge by a solar developer to a Connecticut competitive solicitation for renewable power that would permit winning bidders to receive ...

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Based on campaign pronouncements, the Trump administration was widely expected to be a proponent of oil and gas infrastructure projects.

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This post is part of an occasional series highlighting a project finance article or news item from the past.

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A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order in mid-April made significant changes in how power plants of more than 20 megawatts in size can connect in the future to the utility grid.

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In the past, it has taken years for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to issue decisions on whether or not to authorize onshore LNG facilities...

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A landmark order passed by FERC in 2018 paving the way for energy storage deployment has been upheld in court.

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Independent cogeneration and small renewable energy projects have lost key protections from merchant risks that they have relied on to help secure financing for the past 40 years.

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In 1981 FERC held that the size of a qualifying small power production facility (“QF”) is measured by the amount of capacity it can “send out” to the grid. (Occidental Geothermal, Inc., 17 FERC ¶ 61,231 (1981)