Alt: Buddy The Elf Struggles with Revolving Door

Commerce Clause and Supremacy Clause Challenge to Transmission Permitting Decision Transource LLC v. Defrank Commerce Clause Challenge to Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard West Virginia v. Defr…

Attorney General Letitia James leads a group of states suing the administration’s move to buy back two offshore wind leases.

Utility companies recover their capital costs through regulator-approved rates of return. Using a comprehensive database of utility rate cases, we fin…

The Federal Trade Commission will co-host a workshop on May 14-15, 2026, with George Mason University Law School’s Institute for Consumer Financial Choice (ICFC) focusing on developments in the fin

Our grid is too old and our supply of electricity too small. If we don’t meet this moment, we will face an impoverished future.

FERC should revisit its transmission pricing policy and require utilities to assign the full costs of service to power-hungry data centers, writes Harvard’s Ari Peskoe.

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ALT: a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and a green jacket .

Can the energy transition in the US survive President Trump’s attacks on it?

Utilities are already paying to keep aging coal plants open under DOE emergency orders. New demands to revive nonfunctioning units add costs and legal…

Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act empowers the Secretary of Energy to order “temporary connections” of generation and transmission in response to a war or an emergency that causes…

Podcast Episode · Odd Lots · 12/01/2025 · 57m

A North Carolina federal judge on Monday declined to block the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from imposing nearly $1 billion in enforcement penalties against an energy efficiency aggregator, sa...

State regulators are allowing Kentucky’s largest power companies to spend $3 billion on two new gas power plants, which LG&E/KU say are needed for future data centers.