Practice News
LawFlash/Client Alert | Energy Transactions LawFlash
Stephen Kinney, Jr., Thomas Giblin, Jr.
Utility and other energy companies that have publicly held securities outstanding need to consider SEC disclosure requirements if they plan to redeem these securities.
Presentation | Webinar
Brett Snyder
In this webinar, Morgan Lewis of counsel Brett Snyder discussed Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulation of electric and natural gas utilities. The webinar covered the FCC’s pre-approval requirements for tran... more
Presentation | Webinar
Floyd Norton, IV, Stephen Spina, John McGrane
On August 18, 2011, Morgan Lewis partners John McGrane, Floyd L. Norton, IV, and Steve Spina discussed FERC's Final Rule on Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation in a Morgan Lewis webinar. Issued July 21, this rulemaking will... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Securitization LawFlash
Business and Finance Practice
In recent months, we have alerted clients and friends to the possible new uses of utility securitization bonds in the face of rising capital costs related to, among other things, climate change legislation, renewable portfolio s... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Energy LawFlash
Energy Practice
On June 17, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) in which it proposes to amend the transmission planning and cost allocation requirements for public utility transmission p... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Securitization LawFlash
Business and Finance Practice
Since the 1990s, utility companies have used securitizations as a financing technique to recover costs that may not be includable in rate base. Initially, securitizations were used as a vehicle to allow utilities to recover thei... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Energy LawFlash
Energy Practice
Many investor-owned utilities in the United States rely upon a unique form of corporate financing-the open-ended mortgage indenture. Typically, these mortgage indentures create a lien on substantially all of the utility's real ... more
Presentation | Webinar
Stephen Spina, J. Daniel Skees, John McGrane
Reliability compliance obligations have grown in complexity since the beginning of mandatory Reliability Standards following EPAct 2005, resulting in greater burdens on utilities and raising the spectre of increased penalties for... more
Presentation | Webinar
Floyd Norton, IV, Ronald Tenpas, Levi McAllister, Michael Griffen
Since early 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have been separately drafting legislation that, if enacted, would fundamentally alter the way that the United States generates, transmits, and consumes energ... more
Presentation | Speech
Jennifer Mosley
LawFlash/Client Alert | Climate Change Alert
Litigation Practice
On June 26, the House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454), major legislation addressing energy and climate change policy. Known commonly as the Waxman-Markey bill, the 1,300-... more
Morgan Lewis Title | White Paper
Litigation Practice
Climate change issues are generating one of the most rapidly changing and critically important components of environmental law. Most of the developments discussed in this overview have occurred in the last several years. This p... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Energy LawFlash
Energy Practice
Twenty states and the District of Columbia have adopted mandatory renewable portfolio standards (RPSs) requiring retail electricity suppliers to increase the percentage of electricity supplied from wind power, solar energy, biom... more