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Practice Areas - Government Relations

When necessary, we help our clients make their case for legislative change to Congress and the Executive Branch. Our contacts throughout the energy industry allow us to identify common interests and to forge alliances to achieve legislative objectives.

Cogeneration and Small Power Production
We help obtain facility certifications and negotiate interconnection and power purchase agreements.

Representation on federal power marketing issues and in federal and state regulatory and judicial proceedings regarding rates, certification of facilities, transmission access, and joint ownership issues.

Litigation and Arbitration of rates and agreements concerning transmission access, supply of partial requirements service, and matters related to joint-ownership of generation facilities.

Hydroelectric Experience
We represent clients in permit and license proceedings and in matters pertaining to the operation of hydroelectric facilities.

Advice and Counsel regarding the planning, financing, ownership, and operation of electric supply facilities, and the provision of new services by consumer-owned electric utilities.

Negotiation of wholesale power purchases, transmission services, and the sale and purchase of generating and transmission facilities.

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