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William "Bill" R. Derasmo, Kevin C. Fitzgerald, Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 15, 2012, previously published on May 14, 2012 On May 2, 2012, United States Federal Court of Claims issued a ruling in Case Nos. 07-157C and 07-167, holding that the Bonneville Power Administration (“BPA”) and the Western Area Power Administration (“WAPA”) are in breach of a present contractual duty to pay refunds that...
| | House Bill to Address Reliability Impacts of EPA Rules Divides EPA and FERC
William "Bill" R. Derasmo, Kevin C. Fitzgerald, Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 15, 2012, previously published on May 14, 2012 On May 9, 2012, the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power held a hearing on H.R. 4273: “Resolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act of 2012” and the “Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2012.” H.R. 4273...
| | Duke, Progress File Updated Settlement Agreement in North Carolina
William "Bill" R. Derasmo, Kevin C. Fitzgerald, Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 15, 2012, previously published on May 14, 2012 On May 8, 2012, Duke Energy Corp. (“Duke”) and Progress Energy, Inc. (“Progress”) (collectively, “Applicants”) entered into a supplemental merger settlement agreement with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (“NCUC”) Public Staff. The settlement...
|  | Kazakhstan: New Local Content Approach
GRATA Law Firm;
White Paper May 15, 2012 [General overview of Kazakhstan in World Mineral Industry.
Kazakhstan ranks second only to Russia among the countries of the CIS in its quantity of mineral production. It is endowed with large reserves of a wide range of metallic ores, industrial minerals, and fuels, and its metallurgical sector...
| | Conflicts Over Commodities - The Coal Seam Gas Balancing Act
Rebecca Hoare, Susan Rose; Norton Rose Canada LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 15, 2012, previously published on May 2012 Australian governments are responding to increased pressure to address land use conflicts through the introduction of new legislation and policy initiatives that seek to manage competing interests. The coal seam gas (CSG) industry illustrates the current challenges faced by government to balance...
| | New Tax on Australian Mining Projects
Liz Allnutt, Sarah Lilly; Norton Rose Canada LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 11, 2012, previously published on May 2012 The controversial Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) has now become law in Australia and will come into effect on 1 July 2012.
|  | FERC Asserts Jurisdiction over Bundled REC Sales
Sean A. Atkins, Kenneth G. Jaffe, Michael N. Kunselman, Stephen C. Palmer, Andrea Wolfman; Alston & Bird LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 10, 2012, previously published on May 8, 2012 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently issued an order to clarify the circumstance under which its regulatory authority extends over sales of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs); specifically, when such a sale is bundled with the sale of electric energy at wholesale. The order,...
| | FERC Audit Report Shows Continuing Tension with NERC
William "Bill" R. Derasmo, Kevin C. Fitzgerald, Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 10, 2012, previously published on May 8, 2012 On May 4, 2012, the FERC Office of Enforcement released a delegated letter order accepting the results and recommendations of an audit of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (“NERC”). The audit report, critical of NERC in many ways, prompted NERC to issue a...
| | FERC Releases Guidance on RECs for Qualifying Facilities
William "Bill" R. Derasmo, Kevin C. Fitzgerald, Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 10, 2012, previously published on May 8, 2012 On April 24, 2012, FERC declined a request by the owners of two Qualifying Facilities to initiate an enforcement proceeding against the Public Service Commission of West Virginia (“West Virginia Commission”) under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (“PURPA”)....
| | FERC and NERC Release Report on the September 2011 Blackout
William "Bill" R. Derasmo, Kevin C. Fitzgerald, Peter S. Glaser, Kevin C. Greene, Lara L. Skidmore; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 10, 2012, previously published on May 8, 2012 On May 1, 2012, FERC and NERC released a joint report detailing the events that led to the 2011 blackout in the Southwestern United States that left 2.7 million customers without power. The report called for transmission operators and balancing authorities to improve coordination and planning.
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