CEN. MAINE PWR. CO. v. FED. ENER. REG. COMM.

Nos. 01-1376, 01-1377, 01-1541 and 01-1551.

252 F.3d 34 (2001)

CENTRAL MAINE POWER COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent. Bangor Hydro-Electric Company, et al., Petitioners, v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Respondent. NStar Services Company, Petitioner, v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Respondent. Alternate Power Source, Inc., Petitioner, v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 8, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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.

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

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.

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


BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

The petitions for review in this case challenge orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") that have the effect of reinstituting an earlier charge — the so-called installed capability ("ICAP") deficiency charge — paid by electric utilities in New England who fail to meet certain reserve capacity requirements. This court stayed implementation of all but a small portion of the charge pending judicial review. The...

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