LawFlash/Client Alert | Energy LawFlash
Christina Vitale, Mark Haskell, Levi McAllister, Charles Moore

Failure to provide detailed cost data relating to the provision of oil transportation service causes FERC to deny a pipeline's request to charge market-based initial rates.

LawFlash/Client Alert | Energy LawFlash
Stephen Spina, Levi McAllister, John McGrane

FERC determines that simultaneous locational exchanges that involve a merchant function's affiliated transmission provider's transmission system require prior approval.

LawFlash/Client Alert | Energy LawFlash
Stephen Mahinka, Floyd Norton, IV, Michael Griffen

FERC retains existing market power analytical framework in a new order.

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