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Calling itself the nation’s first planned development to be powered exclusively by solar, Babcock Ranch, located north of Ft. Myers on Florida’s Gulf Coast, hosted its first permanent residents last month in preparation for its official grand opening in March. The new community, which features various residential neighborhoods being built around a town center and business district, projects that at least 500 people will call it home by the end of 2018.
Debate centered on an argument that FERC prematurely approved formula rates for future electric transmission service without knowing whether such rates, at the time actually applied, would still be just and reasonable.
On remand from the state supreme court, the Vermont Public Utility Commission (PUC) has ruled that federal communications law does not preempt the commission from asserting regulatory jurisdiction over Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telecommunications services. The commission previously had concluded that fixed VoIP services fit the legal description of telecommunications services under Vermont law, such that the commission was not proscribed by federal law from exercising its authority over VoIP.