GreeneHurlocker is pleased to announce that attorneys Eric Wallace and Laura Musick have been promoted from counsel to partner, effective as of January 1, 2022. Eric’s practice includes energy law, energy regulation and commercial transactions, with a focus on representing clients in the energy and renewable...
I recently blogged about a case in which the Virginia Supreme Court ruled in my client’s favor. Numerous people reached out to me, many of them asking what it was like to do a virtual argument before the Court. Well, let me tell you about...
The Supreme Court of Virginia recently affirmed a Final Order issued by the State Corporation Commission that began as a dispute over what qualifies as renewable energy but ended in a split opinion debating the effects of statutory changes on existing contracts. At the end...
Transactional lawyers don’t often get to see the fruits of their labors. In the renewable energy world, at least there is a physical project to show for the work at the end, and we like a to see a good solar facility built as much...
[caption id="attachment_20363" align="alignleft" width="300"] image from Charlottesville Tomorrow[/caption] On April 30, 2021, the Virginia Commission issued two orders – one for Dominion and one for Appalachian Power Company – that laid out the annual framework by which each utility will demonstrate compliance with the Virginia Clean...
After about 18 months of weekly working group meetings and 5 days of rulemaking hearings, the Maryland Commission has approved for publication new rules governing supplier consolidated billing (SCB). In May 2019, the Commission entered an Order granting a petition filed by six retail energy suppliers to...
Thanks to everyone who joined us Tuesday for our first in a continuing series of online briefings the second Tuesday of every month at 10:00 AM for 10 minutes. I was pleased to host Sarah Vogelsong, reporter for Virginia Mercury who covers energy and the...
Click here to register for our Tuesdays 10@10. https://youtu.be/HFBqYIIcmIg GreeneHurlocker will begin a monthly series of live virtual briefings looking at energy, business, and commercial real estate issues, as announced in this video from co-managing member Brian Greene. The new program – called “Tuesdays 10@10” – will run...
In a Final Order granting a declaratory judgment petition field by Constellation NewEnergy, the Virginia State Corporation Commission held that: (1) electricity generated by a pumped storage hydroelectricity facility is “renewable energy” under Section 56-576 the Code of Virginia; and (2) the revised definition of...
The Virginia Senate Commerce & Labor Committee rejected two bills on February 24, 2019 that would have allowed customers of Dominion Virginia Energy and Appalachian Power Company greater access to purchase renewable energy from an entity other than their electric utility. Customers and competitive service...