In the last 10 years, annual electric vehicle (EV) sales in the US have increased by nearly 1,100%. While approximately 115,000 new EVs were sold in US markets in 2015, calendar year 2025 sales were substantially larger—nearly 1.3 million new EVs were sold in US markets. Despite strong sales numbers, the state of the EV…

FERC’s Office of Enforcement and Regulatory Accounting (Enforcement) has released its annual report on enforcement actions during fiscal year 2025, which ran from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. The report provides a comprehensive overview of Enforcement’s activities across the electric, natural gas, and oil pipeline industries.

On November 20, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission withdrew its notice of proposed rulemaking to expand the “duty of candor” in communications to FERC and terminated the related rulemaking under Docket No. RM22-20 .

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) on November 20, 2025 withdrew the Proposed Policy Statement on Waiver of Tariff Requirements and Petitions or Complaints for Remedial Relief (Proposed Policy Statement). The Commission’s policy will be to continue to grant tariff waivers on a case-by-case basis, consistent with its statutory authority and the language…

The expansion of energy-intensive technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, has placed unprecedented demands on the electricity grid. These large loads often require vast sums of firm energy and seek to come online quickly, presenting challenges on capacity-constrained portions of the grid. The rapid pace of development is testing the limits of legacy regulatory…

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on October 1, 2025 finalized a final rule under Docket No. RM25-14 to sunset dozens of existing regulations affecting the electric and natural gas industries. This regulatory action was taken pursuant to Executive Order (EO) 14270, Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy, issued on April 9, 2025, and…

FERC recently approved a stipulation and consent agreement between the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and Office of Enforcement and Regulatory Accounting to resolve an investigation into potential violations of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Rules of Procedure (ROP) and FERC regulations during a 2020 audit by the Western Electricity…