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Highlights of our work include:

• We served as co-counsel in seeking U.S. Supreme Court review of the landmark case FERC v. EPSA, which affirmed that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has the authority to remove barriers to “demand response” programs, which compensates consumers for reducing their power use at certain times. Demand response provides tremendous benefits to our environment, helps consumers save money and makes our electricity grid more reliable. We’ve then applied this strong precedent to challenge further barriers to investment in demand response at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and before state regulators. Under pressure from our advocacy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission initiated new rulemaking to address these ongoing regulatory barriers.
• In 2020, we stopped utilities in Kansas from charging customers who generate their own power more than those who do not, when we challenged a decision approving extra fees for people who use residential solar systems.
• We stopped El Paso Electric Company, a local New Mexico regulated utility, from becoming the first in the nation to establish a separate rate class for rooftop solar customers — and charging higher rates for the power they purchased.
• We partnered with a coalition of community and solar industry groups to help establish a landmark clean energy project in Maryland. The three-year Maryland Community Solar Pilot Project includes several forward-thinking policies that will help remove barriers to renewable energy.
• We helped defend the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s landmark Order No. 841, which breaks down barriers to energy storage technologies that are critical to supporting the transition to a 100% zero emissions grid.