The May Oklahoma Bar Journal features several articles reflecting the Energy Law theme. Flip through the pages online in the interactive digital edition.

Jennifer Castillo authored the article "Public Utility Ratemaking 101 for Non-Regulatory Lawyers":

"Winter Storm Uri, which struck a large portion of the United States with freezing precipitation and below-freezing temperatures, caused wellhead and pipe freezing that ultimately resulted in numerous outages, as well as the implementation of curtailment measures. Another result was the extreme increase in natural gas and wholesale electric prices across the region. Rather than simply pass the extraordinary costs caused by Uri through a general rate increase, which would have been a hardship on Oklahoma utility customers, public electric utilities have taken advantage of the Regulated Utility Consumer Protection Act. As a result, Oklahoma consumers will be impacted less due to the ability to amortize the costs of Uri over a longer period of time."