United States Ninth Circuit

The FERC did not consider all relevant factors in responding to a state water agency's position that an energy grid operator should not control the water agency's outages in the same way that it controls the outages of private companies.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/27/2003
• Published 08/27/2003

Judges

• Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, D.W. NELSON and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter C. Kissel,Elisa G. Grammer, Washington, DC, Edna Walz, Mary E. Hackenbracht, AGCA-Office of the California Attorney General (SAC), Sacramento, CA, for petitioner., Michael D. Mackness, Esq., Rosemead, CA, Catherine M. Giovannoni, Esq., Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, DC, for intervenor-petitioner Southern California Edison Company., John N. Estes, III, Esq., Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Washington, DC, intervenors El Segundo Power LLC, Long Beach Generation LLC., Cabrillo Power I LLC and Cabrillo Power II LLC., David B. Robinson, Patton Boggs LLP, Washington, DC, for intervenor South Coast Air Quality Maintenance District., Lawrence G. Acker, Brett A. Snyder, LeBouef, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP, Washington, DC, for intervenor-petitioner IDACORP Energy L.P., Floyd L. Norton, IV, Esq., Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Washington, DC, for intervenor Public Service Company of Colorado., John D. McGrane, Esq., Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington, DC, for intervenors Pinnacle West Capital Corporation and Arizona Public Service Company., Tim W. Muller, Esq., Alex A. Goldberg, Amy L. Sheridan, Tulsa, OK, for intervenor Williams Energy Marketing & Trading Company., A.W. Turner, Jr., Esq., Portland General Electric Company, Portland, OR, for for intervenor Portland General Electric Company., Sidney Mannheim Jubien, Erik N. Saltmarsh, Sacramento, CA, for for intervenor California Electricity Oversight Board., Philip L. Chabot, Jr., Esq., Duane Morris, LLP, Washington, DC, for intervenors The Port of Seattle and City of Tacoma, Washington., Howard E. Shapiro, Esq., Van Ness Feldman, PC, Washington, DC, Marcia Haber Kamine, Esq., Los Angeles, CA, for intervenor-petitioner The City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power., Howard E. Shapiro, Esq., Margaret A. Moore, Van Ness Feldman, Attorney at Law, Washington, DC, for intervenor Sempra Energy Trading Corporation and Avista Energy, Inc., Howard E. Shapiro, Esq., Van Ness Feldman, PC, Washington, DC, for intervenor Puget Sound Energy.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sean Gallagher, Esq., California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, Arocles Aguilar, Gary M. Cohen, Esq., CPUC-State of California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, intervenor-respondent for Public Utilities Commission of the State of California., Marcus Wood, Esq., Stoel, Rives, LLP, Portland, OR, for intervenor-respondent PACIFICORP., Ronald N. Carroll, Jeffrey D. Watkiss, Esq., Bracewell & Patterson, LLP, Washington, DC, for intervenors-respondents Coral Power L.L.C. and Constellation Power Source, Inc., Michael A. Yuffee, McDermott Will & Emery, Debra Raggio Bolton, Mirant Americas, Inc., James C. Beh, Esq., Troutman Sanders, LLP, Washington, DC, for intervenors-respondents Mirant Americas Energy Marketing, L.P., Mirant California L.L.C., Mirant Delta, L.L.C., and Mirant Portrero L.L.C., Meg Meiser, Robert C. McDiarmid, Esq., Lisa G. Dowden, Esq., Spiegel & McDiarmid, Washington, DC, for intervenor-respondent Northern California Power Agency., Richmond F. Allan, Esq., James D. Pembroke, Esq., Wallace L. Duncan, Esq., Michael Postar, Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke, P.C., Washington, DC, for intervenors-respondents Transmission Agency of Northern California, The M-S-R Public Power Company, The Modesto Irrigation District, The City of Palo Alto, California, The City of Redding, California, and The City of Santa Clara, California., Michael E. Ward, Swindler, Berlin, Shereff, Friedman, LLP, Washington, DC, for for intervenor-respondent California Independent System Operator Corporation., Paul J. Pantano, Jr., Esq., Catherine Krupka, Doron F. Ezickson, McDermott, Will & Emery, Washington, DC, for intervenor-respondent Morgan Stanley Capital Group, Inc., Paul J. Pantano, Jr., Esq., Robert Kohn, Catherine M. Krupka, McDermott, Will & Emery, Doron F. Ezickson, Washington, DC, for intervenor-respondent Merrill Lynch Capital Services, Inc., Kenneth W. Irvin, Esq., Morrison & Foerster, LLP, Washington, DC, for intervenor-respondent El Paso Merchant Energy, L.P., Geoffrey G. Bestor, Esq., Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, LLP, Washington, DC, for intervenor-respondent Duke Energy North America LLC and Duke Energy Trading and Marketing LLC., Michael J. Kurman, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Philip L. Chabot, Jr., Esq., Duane Morris, LLP, Washington, DC, for intervenor-respondent City of Tacoma., Ronald N. Carroll, Gary S. Fergus, Esq., Fergus Law Firm, San Francisco, CA, for intervenor-respondent Enron Power Marketing Inc., Solicitor, FERC, David P. Boergers, Secretary, Robert H. Solomon, Deputy, Solicitor, FERC-Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, for respondent.