Covington has extensive experience representing a range of clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, (NRC), the courts, Congress, and state legislatures on regulatory and related matters. Covington’s clients include investor-owned utilities, independent power producers, energy marketers and traders, oil and gas producers, wind producers, local distribution companies, electric cooperatives, large customers and end-users, financiers, project developers, institutional equity investors, the national wind energy association, and a coalition of electric generators, transmitters, distributors, and consumers.
Our representations encompass: mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, asset acquisitions and transfers; industry restructuring, transmission, Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operator matters, market power analyses and mitigation; nuclear matters; electricity rates; enforcement and compliance matters; retail choice and competition, natural gas rates and certificates; contract disputes; power and other energy transactions; affiliate transactions; hydroelectric licensing; administrative litigation; and dispute resolution.
Representative Matters
- Texas Genco in its successfully obtaining FERC approval to sell approximately $5.4 billion in electric generation assets to NRG.
- COMPETE, a coalition of major electricity market participants, including Exelon, Constellation Energy Group, Sempra, Reliant, TXU, Goldman Sachs, National Grid, and Wal-Mart, in proceedings before the Interagency Task Force on Competition initiated under the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
- SDG&E in advising, litigation, and settlements on the extensive proceedings concerning the restructuring of the California electric power industry and the Western Energy Crisis.
- A major energy company in an ongoing FERC enforcement investigation on natural gas matters.
- American Wind Energy Association in rulemaking proceedings before FERC to reform Order No. 888.
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