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Political support for Great Lakes offshore wind

Foley & Lardner LLP
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USA
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July 30 2010

Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, US Sen Sherrod Brown, and Pennsylvania State Rep John Hornaman each addressed the Freshwater Wind 2010 Conference in Cleveland this month

FERC approves SPP's integrated transmission plan

Foley & Lardner LLP
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USA
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July 30 2010

A modified transmission planning process, the Integrated Transmission Plan (ITP), was approved this month by FERC for inclusion in Southwest Power Pool, Inc.'s (SPP) Open Access Transmission Tariff

FERC sets controversial aspects of ISO New England's forward capacity market revisions for paper hearing

Foley & Lardner LLP
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USA
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April 30 2010

FERC recently ruled on proposed revisions submitted by ISO New England (ISO-NE) and the New England Power Pool Participants Committee (Filing Parties) in February 2010 (Rules Changes Filing) to its continually evolving and controversial Forward Capacity Market (FCM) pursuant to which resources compete in an annual Forward Capacity Auction (FCA) on a three-year-forward basis

FERC proposal to simplify public utility investment triggers spirited debate

Foley & Lardner LLP
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USA
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April 30 2010

There is a sharp divide in comments in an ongoing rulemaking regarding determinations of "control" and "affiliation" market based rate and transfer of control proceedings

CFTC heightened obligations on gas contracts; wash trade settlement

Foley & Lardner LLP
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USA
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April 30 2010

Until this month, only one contract traded on an exempt commercial market was considered by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to be a significant price discovery contract (SPDC

FERC action on transmission incentives

Foley & Lardner LLP
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USA
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April 30 2010

FERC recently applied and clarified principles it laid down in Order No. 679 governing available incentives for transmission projects in two orders, one involving California projects and the other in the Mid-Atlantic region

Did scott brown change the national energy debate?

Foley & Lardner LLP
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USA
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January 29 2010

The election of Massachusetts State Sen. Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate changed the political and legislative landscape in Washington, D.C. like no political event in a generation

CFTC proposes rules to impose position limits on certain NYMEX and ICE energy contracts

Foley & Lardner LLP
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USA
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January 29 2010

The CFTC is proposing rules that would set position limits on the size of positions that a person may hold in certain energy contracts traded on a futures exchange or exempt commercial market, subject to some exemptions

FERC seeking comment regarding the integration of wind, solar, hydro

Foley & Lardner LLP
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USA
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January 29 2010

FERC is seeking comment from the industry on the various barriers impeding the integration of variable energy resources, which it termed "VERs," into the transmission grid

Supreme Court extends Mobile-Sierra doctrine to third parties

Foley & Lardner LLP
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USA
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January 29 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court this month extended to third parties the Mobile-Sierra presumption that an electricity rate set by a freely negotiated wholesale-energy contract meets the Federal Power Act's “just and reasonable” requirement