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Covington's team including a former Commissioner at Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), a senior FERC electricity policy staff member, a former General Counsel of Constellation Energy, and a former Assistant General Counsel at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission - represents a wide range of clients with respect to the smart grid, grid access, net metering, demand response, grid interconnection, and investment in transmission and distribution technologies and resources.
Our attorneys are sought out and retained for their comprehensive and first-hand knowledge of the legal complexities involving the efficient distribution and allocation of power. The firm’s data privacy practice also frequently provides counsel on privacy issues that arise from expanded deployment of “smart grid” technologies.
Wal-Mart Smart Grid and Demand Response
Wal-Mart on smart grid and demand response issues.
Smart Grid Company Acquisition
Smart grid technology company in connection with its acquisition by a Fortune 200 company.
Smart Grid and Demand Response Issues for Multiple Clients
Multiple clients on smart grid and demand response issues, including legislation and federal regulatory policies.
Demand Response FERC Matters for Comverge
Comverge, Inc. a demand response provider and technology company, in FERC matters on regulations pertaining to demand response, including measurement and verification issues, and, in particular, proceedings involving demand response in the PJM Interconnection.
July 1, 2020, Inside Energy & Environment
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently signaled that it is exploring ways to improve the cybersecurity of the U.S. electricity grid. On June 18, 2020, FERC issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) regarding whether some of its reliability standards regarding cybersecurity must be enhanced and whether the focus of its standards must change due...… ...
June 18, 2020, Inside Energy & Environment
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has scheduled a conference on September 30, 2020 regarding carbon pricing in organized wholesale electricity markets. According to the conference notice, the purpose is to discuss “considerations related to state adoption of mechanisms to price carbon dioxide emissions…in regions with FERC-jurisdictional organized ...
May 26, 2020, Inside Energy & Environment
State regulation of net metering may be a thing of the past if a recent petition filed by the New England Ratepayers Association (“NERA”) with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) is granted. NERA’s petition requests that FERC (1) find that there is exclusive federal jurisdiction over wholesale energy sales from generation sources located on...… ...
May 20, 2020, Inside Energy & Environment
As described in an earlier post to this blog, the Commerce Department initiated an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 into whether “laminations for stacked cores for incorporation into transformers, stacked and wound cores for incorporation into transformers, electrical transformers, and transformer regulators are being imported ...
National Security Tariff Investigation Targets Steel-Based Components of Electrical Transformers
May 12, 2020, Inside Energy & Environment
The Commerce Department on May 4, 2020, announced a new investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, examining whether “laminations for stacked cores for incorporation into transformers, stacked and wound cores for incorporation into transformers, electrical transformers, and transformer regulators are being imported into the United States ...
April 20, 2020, Inside Energy & Environment
A diverse group of stakeholders filed a request with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to convene a public conference to discuss integrating carbon pricing into U.S. organized regional wholesale electricity energy markets. The group says it is not asking FERC to direct carbon pricing but instead to gather a wide range of stakeholders to...… ...
March 19, 2020, Inside Energy & Environment
The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), a Regional Transmission Organization (RTO), has proposed to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) tariff provisions that would treat electric storage facilities as transmission-only facilities if they provide the preferred solution to a transmission issue in MISO’s regional planning process. This is ...
December 3, 2019, Inside Energy & Environment
Electronic devices and their components marketed in the European Union and European Economic Area are subject to a morass of environmental and product safety requirements that is only likely to increase with the EU’s implementation of its Circular Economy Strategy in the near future. The requirements apply to all types of equipment, from sophisticated ...
April 24, 2019, Inside Energy & Environment
The European Commission (“Commission”) has published a Recommendation on cybersecurity in the energy sector (“Recommendation”). The Recommendation builds on recent EU legislation in this area, including the NIS Directive and EU Cybersecurity Act (see our posts here and here). It sets out guidance to achieve a higher level of cybersecurity taking into account ...
December 20, 2018, Inside Energy & Environment
Carbon pricing is seen by many as an effective means of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from electricity generation. California and several Eastern states have enacted “cap and trade” emission allowance programs, which have forced generators in those states to pay a price for their CO2 emissions. With the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan not...… ...
FERC Approves Rules to Improve Compensation to Demand Response in Organized Electricity Markets
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