Study Group: FERC Energy and Utilities Experts: Lawyers(?)

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's recently issued Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Standards of Conduct applicable to natural gas and electric transmission providers would establish revised standards for preventing anti-competitive information sharing between those trasmission...

A clear understanding of this area of the law has become critical  because the risks from noncompliance can subject an entire entity, including upper management, to significant fines ($1 million per day/ per violation), criminal penalties and disgorgement of undue profits.  Many energy...

The Surface Transportation Board has proposed to change its methodology for calculating the railroad industry cost of capital.  The cost of capital is used for several regulatory purposes.  Lowering the cost of capital, as proposed by the agency, could increase the rate relief available to...

1. A Bosporus pipeline bypass would alleviate the congestion in the crowded straits, provide access to a deepwater port, and potentially allow more crude oil shipments from Russia and Central Asia.2.  Similar proposals for a direct bypass have been discussed for more than a decade and none has...

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court's decision in Popowsky underscores the importance of rate-related benefits in demonstrating that a proposed merger affords sufficient "affirmative benefits" to satisfy the statutory "public interest" standard. Popowsky indicates that promises of continued "good corporate...