Covington has deep expertise and experience in electricity transmission and distribution issues. Covington's team includes a former FERC Commissioner, a senior FERC electricity policy staff member, and a General Counsel of Constellation Energy, each expert on virtually every aspect of pricing, siting, planning and cost allocation for these resources. Covington represents utilities, customers, power producers, and wind and solar companies with respect to smart grid, acquisition of transmission and distribution resources, RTO transmission policy, merchant transmission, grid access, net metering, demand response, grid interconnection, and investment in transmission and distribution technologies and resources.
Representative Matters
- Pepco Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries for over 25 years, including representation in over $6.6 billion of securities offerings since 2002, including mortgage bonds, notes, tax-exempt pollution control bonds and common stock. In addition, Covington has handled for this client syndicated credit facilities, commercial paper programs, bilateral credit agreements, bridge acquisition facilities, a credit intermediation arrangement, and swap transactions.
- COMPETE Coalition on a range of electricity transmission matters.
- RES Americas on electric transmission matters in pending federal energy legislation and on a variety of FERC regulatory issues related to the expansion of the transmission grid.
- Multiple clients on smart grid and demand response issues, including legislation and federal regulatory policies.
- KKR in the rulemaking proceeding before FERC regarding incentive-based rates for electric transmission under EPAct 2005 and in a separate FERC proceeding on investment policy.
- PSEG in structuring a project which would interconnect to Manhattan a 555 MW generating unit in New Jersey by means of a transmission cable to be installed under the Hudson River and advising on complex FERC open access, tariff, and other transmission issues.
- SDG&E in connection with a FERC and court proceeding regarding congestion revenue rights in the California ISO.
- Southern Montana G&T Cooperative in a complaint at FERC involving firm transmission service and advise on a range of disputes involving interconnection and transmission issues.
- A major solar company on transmission interconnection issues.
- American Wind Energy Association in the rulemaking proceeding before FERC to reform Order No. 888.
- Wal-Mart on smart grid and demand response issues.
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