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Firm News | 3 min read | 01.18.24
Energy Regulatory Lawyer Ruta Kalvaitis Skučas Joins Crowell & Moring
Ruta Kalvaitis Skučas has joined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the firm’s Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Practice Group. She brings more than two decades of experience advising clean energy developers, traders, and technology companies on energy issues before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the U.S. Department of Energy, and state public utility commissions.
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Client Alert | 17 min read | 05.30.24
Order No. 1920: FERC Reshapes the Transmission Planning Landscape
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”) issued Order No. 1920 on May 13, 2024 to increase the pace of transmission grid expansion and strengthen regional transmission planning.[1] The landmark order, as well as the concurrence and dissent of the Commissioners voting on the order, is summarized below. At bottom, it represents a fundamental reshaping of the transmission planning landscape, requiring long-term transmission planning, closer coordination between generation interconnection and regional transmission planning, and revisions to the local transmission planning process to close loopholes created by Order No. 1000 in 2011.
