February 13, 2025

Kentucky Municipals Defend FERC Orders Rejecting Rate Re-Pancaking

On January 21, 2025, firm partner Jeff Bayne, on behalf of the Kentucky Municipal Energy Agency and other transmission-dependent municipal utilities (collectively, Kentucky Municipals), argued in the D.C. Circuit (recording) against the re-pancaking of Kentucky Municipals’ transmission rates across the seam between the transmission grids of Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) and Louisville Gas and Electric Company and...
Jeffrey M. Bayne, Jeffrey A. Schwarz, Thomas C. Trauger, Lauren L. Springett
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August 5, 2022

D.C. Circuit Vacates FERC’s Orders that had Increased Transmission Costs to Kentucky Municipals

On August 5, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) orders “re-pancaking” electric transmission rates across the seam between the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) transmission grid and that of Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company (together, LG&E/KU). Ky. Mun. Energy Agency v. FERC, Nos. 19-1236 et...
Thomas C. Trauger, David E. Pomper, ,
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