Transaction Regulatory Matters

• MBR authorizations for numerous entities, including Hartree Partners, Brookfield Renewable Trading and Marketing, Brookfield Energy Marketing
• MBR change in status filings for numerous clients, including Hartree Partners, various Brookfield MBR entities, TerraForm, Energy Power Partners
• Triennial MBR filings for numerous entities, including Hartree Partners, Brookfield Renewable entities, and Homer City Generation
• EWG certification for a number of projects
• QF certification and recertifications for a number of entities, including Hartree Partners, Energy Power Partners, and Energy Power Investment Co.
• FPA Section 203 applications for a number of clients, including Brookfield Asset Management, Brookfield Renewable, Nuveen Asset Management, Hull Street Energy, GP Energy Management
• Represent various clients in making interlocking directorate filings
• Represent numerous lenders and sponsors in regulatory diligence associated with a variety of tax-equity related financings.

Market Design and Tariff Matters

• Represent merchant generation in various proceedings to amend the PJM Tariff related to generator offer requirements.
• Represent various clients in capacity market proceedings in PJM, ISO New England, and NYISO
• Represent Hollow Road Solar in filing a Petition for Declaratory Order concerning the application of PJM’s then-effective capacity market Minimum Offer Price Rule
• Counsel to Cube Yadkin Generation LLC in filing of complaint against PJM related to dynamically scheduling Tariff provisions

Generation Interconnection Issues

• Counsel clients with respect to FERC’s Generation Interconnection Queue Reform NOPR
• Represent various renewables developers in filing comments/protests to PJM’s generation interconnection queue reform tariff filing
• Represent renewables developer in various generation interconnection queue issues across the country in PJM, ISO- New England, New York ISO, MISO, SPP and the de-centralized markets in the southwest and southeast
• Represent solar developer in Tri-State’s generation interconnection queue reform process
• Represent offshore wind developer in various PJM-related generation interconnection issues
• Represented solar developer in dispute before FERC related to PJM’s generation interconnection rules and application of mitigation under its capacity market construct
• Represent wind developer with regulatory issues associated with a repower of its wind facility and associated interconnection issues

Compliance and Enforcement

• Provide compliance training and the development of compliance manuals for numerous generation companies, marketers, trading companies, and utilities

FERC

• Counsel to merchant generator in FERC investigation into its bidding behavior in the PJM market
• Counsel to generator in investigation of MISO resource adequacy/capacity market participation
• Counsel to participant in investigation of the Illinois standard offer service auction
• Represented merchant energy arm of integrated utility in FERC investigation of alleged manipulation of wholesale power markets through loop flow through various northeast and Midwest RTOs
• Represented a generation owner in a FERC investigation into the effect of its offers into the PJM Day-Ahead market on wholesale power prices
• Represent natural gas marketer in FERC investigation into Winter Storm Uri effect on Midcontinent and Texas gas markets
• Represented power marketer in FERC investigation into its bidding behavior in the PJM up-to congestion market
• Represent international bank in FERC audit of its power and natural gas regulatory compliance

NERC

• Counsel to generation owner in negotiating settlement of a TRE NERC audit and investigation
• Represented a generator owner/operator in an investigation of potential CIP violations (Reliability First RE)
• Represented a TO in a self-report and settlement of potential standards violations including CIP, Communication, outage coordination (WECC)
• Represented a generator owner/operator in a settlement of NERC standards violations related to outage coordination and certain operational standards (WECC)
• Represented marketer/trading entity in FERC compliance audit related to its power and natural gas trading activities
• Represented various clients in joint NERC/FERC investigation into Winter Storm Uri

CFTC/Exchanges

• Represent trading company and trader in CFTC investigation into power trading activities on exchange
• Represent trader in CME investigation into potential disruptive trade practices in its futures market trading activity
• Represent trader in ICE investigation into potential disruptive trade practices in its ERCOT power trading activity
• Represent trader in CME investigation into natural gas trading activity
• Represent oil company in CME investigation into potential wash trading activity