Representative Matters
- Advised a private equity firm on energy market and regulatory structure reforms during the potential acquisition and re-development of several large power plants in the Northeast.
- Guided ski resorts through RFP processes to obtain grants from the Efficiency Maine Trust for the development of efficiency projects that reduce electricity use and/or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Obtained renewable power certifications at proceedings before the Maine PUC under the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard.
- Successfully combined legal, political and media strategies to defeat a proposed utility rate design, including a standby charge, that would have harmed a coalition of industrial, commercial, and residential electricity consumers that also produce electricity using renewable and efficient energy sources.
- Lobbied for the landmark 2013 Omnibus Energy Bill provided testimony to the Maine Legislature's Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee on technical issues related to life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with natural gas.
- Advised a joint venture of two private equity firms on the acquisition of a pulp, paper, and lumber mill, including due diligence regarding environmental and energy permitting and compliance and negotiation and drafting of the purchase and sale agreement.
- Defended developers, who intended to rehabilitate a historic small dam and mill property and generate electricity using micro hydro, from the imposition of a water level by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection which would have threatened the dam and mill.
- Participated in the successful appeal of a PUC decision to the Maine Law Court, preventing the virtual "re-integration" of utilities with generation in Maine.
- Assisted in the representation of an offshore wind project in obtaining a long-term contract before the Maine PUC and in the related application for funding from the U.S. Department of Energy.
- Assisted various clients with compliance requirements of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission related to obtaining Market Based Rate Authorization and making wholesale sales of power.
- Performed extensive due diligence in the acquisition of thousands of megawatts of hydropower in the Northeast related to FERC hydropower licensing.