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Transmission Planning: The Unsung Use Case For Battery Storage
As battery storage technology advances and applications multiply, the critical question shifts from capability to strategic prioritization. While tax credits face new restrictions and market conditions evolve, one underutilized application stands out: integrating battery energy storage systems into long-term transmission planning under FERC Order 1920 to modernize grid infrastructure and optimize renewable energy delivery.
United States Energy
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Foley Hoag LLP
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PJM Takes A Step Forward In Dealing With Capacity Shortfall: Important FERC Filing Coming Soon
PJM Interconnection faces unprecedented challenges as surging data center demand threatens to outpace new generation capacity, creating a reliability gap that could spike consumer costs across 13 states and the District of Columbia. The regional transmission organization and its stakeholders are racing against the clock to implement a Reliability Backstop Procurement and Connect and Manage framework before the critical December 2026 capacity auction. With the White House, bipartisan governors, and FERC all
United States Energy
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Foley Hoag LLP
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US Government Equity And Equity-Linked Investments In Critical Minerals
Federal agencies are deploying equity and equity-linked capital instruments across the critical minerals sector, fundamentally reshaping how mining and processing projects are capitalized, governed and exited. This structural shift introduces new considerations for sponsors and strategic investors navigating transactions where national security priorities intersect with private capital formation.
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Mayer Brown
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Transmission Planning: The Unsung Use Case For Battery Storage
As battery storage technology advances and applications multiply, the critical question shifts from capability to strategic prioritization. While tax credits face new restrictions and market conditions evolve, one underutilized application stands out: integrating battery energy storage systems into long-term transmission planning under FERC Order 1920 to modernize grid infrastructure and optimize renewable energy delivery.
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FH
Foley Hoag LLP
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PJM Takes A Step Forward In Dealing With Capacity Shortfall: Important FERC Filing Coming Soon
PJM Interconnection faces unprecedented challenges as surging data center demand threatens to outpace new generation capacity, creating a reliability gap that could spike consumer costs across 13 states and the District of Columbia. The regional transmission organization and its stakeholders are racing against the clock to implement a Reliability Backstop Procurement and Connect and Manage framework before the critical December 2026 capacity auction. With the White House, bipartisan governors, and FERC all
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Foley Hoag LLP
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EPA Proposes UCMR 6 For PFAS And Other Contaminants, Declines Adding Microplastics
The EPA has proposed the Sixth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 6), requiring public water systems to collect data on 30 unregulated contaminants including certain PFAS from 2028 to 2030. Despite petitions from seven state governors and environmental groups, the agency declined to add microplastics to the monitoring list, citing the absence of validated testing methods, though microplastics remain on the draft Contaminant Candidate List 6 for potential future regulation.
United States Environment
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Holland & Knight
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EPA Announces Next Step In TSCA Review Of Five Chemicals
The EPA is advancing TSCA reviews of five industrial chemicals by sending draft technical documents to independent peer review, but the agency's decision to limit the scope of that review—excluding full draft risk evaluations—has reignited debate over whether partial peer review adequately serves the statute's intent for comprehensive scientific oversight. As these chemicals appear in flame retardants, aviation fuel, and industrial processes with direct implications for worker and community heal
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Bergeson & Campbell
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