Category — Operations

In July 2009, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman, (D-NM), introduced a bill, the “American Clean Energy Leadership Act,” which would allocate costs for new transmission and bar FERC from assigning the cost of a transmission project to a region or “sub-region” unless FERC can prove the costs are “reasonably proportionate to measureable economic and reliability benefits.” [Read more →]

ATLANTA – March 18, 2010 – Troutman Sanders announced today it will open an office in Portland, Ore., with the addition of three new partners there.
 
Troutman Sanders, an international law firm with 680 attorneys, plans to open the office in April in downtown Portland. The office will be the firm’s 16th and marks the latest in a string of strategic expansions by Troutman Sanders. [Read more →]

On March 4, 2010, FERC approved a transfer of title for the 53-mile, 400 MW high voltage, direct-current transmission line and its associated facilities from Trans Bay Cable LLC (“Trans Bay”) to Pittsburg Power Company (“Pittsburg Power”).  [Read more →]

On February 18, 2010, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (”FERC” or the “Commission”) issued an order granting Google Energy LLC (“Google Energy”) market-based rate authority effective February 23, 2010, finding that Google Energy meets the criteria necessary for a Category 1 seller in all regions. [Read more →]

Coal ash has become one of the most pressing environmental issues confronting the electric power industry.  The ash pond release at the TVA Kingston plant in late 2008 focused intense scrutiny not only on the regulatory status and health effects of coal ash, but also on the storage of coal ash and the beneficial use of coal ash in numerous products.  The recent 60 Minutes episode on the subject raised even more public interest in the issue.  And largely because of the TVA Kingston release, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has made her views very clear—the old ways of managing coal ash are gone. [Read more →]