Energy: Reclassifying as a FERC-Jurisdictional Transmission Line

In 2010, Madison Electric Works (MEW), an electric utility serving Madison, Maine, explored reclassifying its 115-kV power line as a FERC-jurisdictional transmission line. Reclassification of the line, which serves Madison Paper Industries (MPI), Backyard Farms, and other customers in Madison, could permit MPI to receive electricity supply on more favorable terms. We advised MEW as to the steps necessary to obtain FERC-jurisdictional status, and researched the regulatory regime under which MEW would find itself were the reclassification to succeed.