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Electric Power Generation
42 published works
Washington Energy Report
FERC Accepts and Suspends PJM’s Reliability Backstop Procurement Proposal, Establishes Paper Hearing Procedures, and Encourages a New Section 205 Filing
By Ben Duwve, Emily Beard
On September 29, 2026, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) accepted PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.’s (“PJM”) Reliability Backstop Procurement proposal (“RBP Proposal”), suspending the proposal for five months and establishing a…
ACOEL Blogs & Resources
The Great Power Secession: Texas Air Permitting and the Data Center Boom
What happens when an emerging industry decides to secede from the power grid? In Pecos County, deep in West Texas’ Permian Basin, a data center developer claims to hold the…
E2 Law Blog
NYISO Reliability Plan: New York May Require Thousands of Megawatts of Dispatchable Generation by 2034
By Robert M Rosenthal, Jane McLaughlin, Jeshica Patel, Zackary D. Knaub
On Nov. 21, 2025, the Board of Directors of the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO), as anticipated, approved the 2025-2034 Comprehensive Reliability Plan (CRP). This blog post highlights…
CCN Mexico Report™
New Regulations on Electricity Generation Permits for Interconnected Self-Consumption (0.7 – 20 MW) in Mexico
By José María Lujambio, Antonio Riojas, Francisco Isaac Olguin Villanueva
As of October 4, 2025, new regulations issued by Mexico’s National Energy Commission (“CNE”) have taken effect, applicable to the requirements, documents, and information needed to apply for electricity generation…
Washington Energy Report
FERC Grants and Denies in Part Basin Electric’s Transmission Incentive Petition
On March 31, 2025, FERC granted in part and denied in part Basin Electric Power Cooperative’s (Basin Electric) petition for declaratory order seeking transmission incentives for the Roundup-Kummer Ridge Project,…
ESG Legal Solutions, LLC
Maryland’s Energy Crisis: The Critical Need to Boost In State Electricity Generation
Maryland Needs to Produce More Electricity
Renewable + Law
D.C. Circuit Affirms FERC’s <em>Broadview</em> Order Confirming that Qualifying Facilities May Install Greater than 80 MW of Nameplate Generating Capacity
By Jessica Bayles, Jason Johns
7/8/2024 Update: The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated the D.C. Circuit’s order, discussed below. The D.C. Circuit applied Chevron deference in affirming FERC’s decision in the proceeding below. As a…
CCN Mexico Report™
Defending the CRE
Several weeks have passed since Mexico’s President submitted his initiative to amend the Constitution on energy matters to the Chamber of Deputies. Since then, much has been written and said…
Environmental and Climate
EPA Signals More Stringent Regulation for Steam Electric Power Generators
By Anna Wildeman, Dave Ross, Fitzgerald Veira, Brooks Smith, Houston Shaner
EPA announced yesterday its intent to revise some portions of the 2020 Steam Electric Effluent Limitation Guideline Reconsideration Rule (2020 ELG Rule). EPA’s press release and the pre-publication version of its Federal Register notice sent a…
Washington Energy Report
FERC Rejects Proposed Unilateral Termination Amendment Related to Mystic Generators
On January 9, 2020, FERC rejected Constellation Mystic Power, LLC’s (“Mystic”) proposed amendment to its cost-of-service agreement (“Mystic Agreement”) with ISO New England Inc. (“ISO-NE”) that would have provided Mystic…