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Power Play: DOJ’s Antitrust Division Puts Electricity Markets, and Digital Infrastructure Under the Microscope

Antitrust Chronicle® January 2026 Volume 2

For nearly fifteen years, DOJ deferred to FERC and state regulators on electricity merger review. That posture ended on December 5, 2025, when the Antitrust Division—joined by the Attorney General of Texas—filed a complaint and proposed consent decree requiring divestiture of six power plants to resolve concerns arising from Constellation...

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September

For much of the past half-century, intellectual property and antitrust have been cast as uneasy neighbors. The contributions to this edition of the TechREG Chronicle ask what it takes to renew innovation, and whether the two bodies of law are rivals or partners in that task.




August

This edition of the TechREG Chronicle turns to tokenization — the linking of real-world value to instruments that live on distributed ledgers.




July

The contributions in this Chronicle explore whether existing privacy frameworks remain fit for purpose in an environment characterized by large-scale data collection, increasingly sophisticated identification technologies, and evolving theories of harm.


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