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Potential “game-changing” interconnection and transmission developments underway

Caileen Gamache
August 11, 2021

FERC is addressing transmission reform for the first time in roughly a decade, and Congress is helping to relieve legal congestion.

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FERC Upends Nearly 40-Years’ of Precedent on Determining QF Size | Norton Rose Fulbright

Robert Shapiro
September 14, 2020

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

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Landmark federal energy storage order upheld

Caileen Gamache
July 15, 2020

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

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FERC Works to Speed Up LNG Reviews

Admin
September 17, 2018

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 facilitie

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FERC finds that New York waited too long to deny the Millennium Pipeline's water quality certificate | Norton Rose Fulbright

Admin
October 27, 2017

On September 15, 2017 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) held that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) waived

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Solar Developer loses PURPA challenge to State renewable program

Robert Shapiro
July 5, 2017

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

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The effect of FERC's quorum issue on natural gas projects

Thomas Hirsch
April 25, 2017

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

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#TBT: Tapping Into capacity on merchant transmission lines and interties | Norton Rose Fulbright

Admin
June 9, 2016

This post is part of an occasional series highlighting a project finance article or news item from the past. It is often interesting and thought provoking

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