United States First Circuit

FERC has the authority to set the amount of the installed capability deficiency charge, a penalty for electric utilities who fail to meet certain reserve capacity requirements, but it also has the obligation to adequately explain its order.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/08/2001
• Published 06/08/2001

Judges

• BOUDIN, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael E. Small and Harvey Reiter with whom Wendy N. Reed, Wright & Talisman, P.C., David D'Alessandro, Morrison & Hecker, LLP, Lisa Fink, State of Maine, Public Utilities Commission, Kenneth G. Jaffe,Swidler Berlin Shereff Huber Friedman LLP, Richard M. Lorenzo, Heidi Marie Werntz, Huber Lawrence & Abell, Stephen L. Teichler, Duane, Morris & Heckscher LLP, and Joseph W. Rogers, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Attorney General, were on consolidated brief for petitioners Bangor Hydro-Electric Company, Maine Public Utilities Commission, Vermont Department of Public Service, National Grid USA, NSTAR Services Company, Central Maine Power Company, and intervenors Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Alternate Power Source, Inc., Stephen G. Ward, Public Advocate, Office of Public Advocate, and Wayne R. Jortner, Senior Counsel, Office of Public Advocate, on consolidated brief for Maine Public Advocate, Amicus Curiae., John N. Estes, III with whom Paul Franklin Wight, John S. Moot, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Richard P. Bress, Minh N. Vu, Michael J. Gergen, Latham & Watkins, David B. Raskin, Joseph E. Stubbs, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Joseph DeVito, NRG Energy, Inc., James Bertrand, Leonard, Street and Deinard, P.A., Daniel J. Mitchell, Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A., Larry F. Eisenstat, George E. Johnson, Michael R. Engleman, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, LLP, Jay T. Ryan, Van Ness Feldman, P.C., James C. Beh, Jeffrey M. Jakubiak, Donald F. Santa, Jr., Dionne E. Thompson, Troutman Sanders LLP and Neil H. Butterklee, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, were on consolidated brief for intervenors PG & E National Energy Group, Inc., PG & E Generating Company, LLC, USGen New England, Inc., PG & E Energy Trading-Power, L.P., Sithe New England Holdings, LLC, PEC Energy Marketing, Inc., Consolidated Edison Energy, Inc., American National Power, Inc., Power Development Company, LLC, NRG Power Marketing, Inc., Connecticut Jet Power LLC, Devon Power LLC, Middletown Power LLC, Montville Power LLC, Norwalk Power LLC, Somerset Power LLC, Northeast Utilities Service Company on behalf of the Northeast Utilities Operating Companies and Select Energy, Inc., Mirant New England, LLC, Mirant Canal, LLC, Mirant Kendall, LLC, FPL Energy, LLC and Duke Energy North America, LLC.


• For Appellees:
  
• Beth G. Pacella with whom Kevin P. Madden, General Counsel, and Dennis Lane, Solicitor, were on consolidated brief for respondent.