Posts from — April 2009

On April 2, 2009, FERC filed a petition seeking an en banc hearing asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (“Court of Appeals”) to reconsider the case of Piedmont Environmental Council v. FERC. [Read more →]

On April 2, 2009, FERC denied the two principle allegations in a complaint by PJM Interconnection, LLC (“PJM”) against a member company, Power Edge LLC (“Power Edge”) and several of its affiliates (collectively, “Tower Companies”), claiming Tower Companies manipulated PJM’s financial transmission rights (“FTR”) when Power Edge defaulted in December 2007. [Read more →]

On Tuesday, the New York Regional Interconnect (“NYRI”) suspended its plan to build a 190 mile, high-voltage transmission line in New York after it claimed an order by the Commission on March 31, 2009 created too many financial risks for its investors. [Read more →]

On March 31, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) and House Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey (D-MA) released a draft energy and climate change bill. [Read more →]

On Wednesday, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), chairman of the Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee, released the National Energy Security Act of 2009 (“NESA”). NESA, which is co-sponsored by Senator George Voinovich (R-OH), attempts to diversify and promote alternative forms of energy such as plug-in cars and trucks, biofuels, and domestic renewables and fossil fuels in order to decrease the United States’ dependence on foreign oil by 80% by 2050. [Read more →]