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Energy

The March Toward Utility-Scale Energy Storage Keeps Going and Going and Going: States Are Forming Ranks

Federal energy regulators recently embraced utility-grade, battery-facilitated energy storage, and now states must fall in line to unlock the full value of storage technology. Stakeholders across a wide cross section of industries – investor-owned utilities and cooperatives, solar and wind...

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Energy

Key Issues as FERC Moves into 2018

Akin Gump's Chip Cannon and David Applebaum take a look at the new FERC commission and its upcoming priorities. Their remarks have been edited for length and style.

CCBJ: Tell us about changes in FERC leadership and what that means for the commission’s priorities.

Chip Cannon: We...

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Energy | Renewable Energy

FERC Enforcement is (Kinda) Alive and Well: But a new commission will mean changes for the energy regulator

As an independent administrative agency, FERC is immune to fast change from a new administration – sort of. With three commission slots to be filled in 2017, including the agency chair, FERC will change, and likely so will some of its enforcement priorities. Akin partner David Applebaum,...

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