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Regulator & Court Approaches to Managing Uncertainty in the Climate Risk Context

Adaptation as Risk ManagementEnergy RegulationFederal Energy RegulationReportRisk Management

Toward Resilience: Defining, Measuring, and Monetizing Resilience in the Electricity System

This report aims to assist policymakers in understanding grid resilience and evaluating potential interventions aimed at improving grid resilience. It develops a definition of resilience grounded in academic literature; describes a methodology for calculating the costs and benefits of potential grid resilience improvements; identifies legal authorities that states and federal…
Burcin Unel and Avi Zevin
August 1, 2018
Adaptation as Risk ManagementAgency FilingEnergy RegulationFederal Energy RegulationRisk Management

Comments on FERC’s Notice of Inquiry on its Certification of New Interstate Natural Gas Facilities

These comments were submitted in response to FERC's Notice of Inquiry into possible changes to its natural gas certification policy. The comments argue, among other things, that FERC should consider how climate change will affect the construction and operation of natural gas infrastructure in its certification decisions.
Romany Webb and Jessica Wentz
June 18, 2018
Adaptation as Risk ManagementEnergy RegulationFederal Energy RegulationJournal ArticleRisk ManagementState Energy Regulation

Microgrids and Resilience to Climate-Driven Impacts on Public Health

This article examines how the definitions of resilience adopted by the public health and electricity communities can, but do not necessarily, converge in responses to electricity outages so severe that they affect the operation of critical infrastructure, such as wastewater treatment and drinking water facilities, hospitals, and cooling centers. The…
Justin Gundlach
February 1, 2018
Energy RegulationFederal Energy RegulationJournal ArticleState Energy Regulation

Prospective Grandfathering: Anticipating the Energy Transition Problem

This article identifies tools available to the government ex ante that will preserve regulatory flexibility in the future by forestalling regulatory takings claims and blunt the fairness concerns that fuel takings arguments, and argues for their adoption in the context of natural gas regulation.
Christopher Serkin and Michael Vandenbergh
August 22, 2017