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On December 16, 2021, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order No. 881, its Final Rule announcing a new policy to guide transmission provider determination and use of transmission line ratings.

Wright & Talisman, P.C. is pleased to announce that it has been ranked in the 2022 U.S. News – Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" list.

Wright & Talisman, P.C. is pleased to announce that four of its attorneys have been recognized in the 2022 Editions of The Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

Washington, D.C. – Wright & Talisman, P.C. continues to be ranked as one of America's leading law firms in the area of energy law by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. The firm is ranked nationally in the areas of Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation) and Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation).

On March 18, 2021, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued two orders relating to the rules for "behind-the-meter" resource participation in wholesale markets. Both orders centered on FERC's earlier decision in Order No. 719 to allow state and other retail regulatory authorities to "opt-out" of Regional Transmission Organization (RTO)/Independent System Operator wholesale demand response programs (Opt-Out).

On November 19, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) proposed a rule that would revise both the Commission's pro forma Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) and its regulations under the Federal Power Act to improve the accuracy and transparency of transmission line ratings.

On September 17, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued a final rule, Order No. 2222, to require regional transmission organizations and independent system operators (RTO/ISO) to adopt participation models that allow distributed energy resource (DER) aggregators to participate directly in their wholesale electricity markets.

August 25, 2020 – Wright & Talisman, P.C. is pleased to announce that three lawyers have been included in the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. We are also pleased to announce that Uju Okasi is joining our firm as an associate and that she has been included in the inaugural 2021 Edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

On June 30, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit), sitting en banc, overturned fifty years of circuit precedent in finding that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC or Commission) practice of issuing "tolling orders" for the purpose of preventing requests for rehearing from being denied by operation of law, which delay judicial review indefinitely, is not authorized by the Natural Gas Act.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on May 21, 2020, issued two orders that modify FERC's approach to analyzing the allowable return on equity (ROE) authorized for recovery under FERC-jurisdictional rates charged by public utilities and gas and oil pipelines.