Covington works with multiple clients regarding the development and overall direction of US energy policy and restructuring of the electric industry at both the Federal and State levels. We are intimately familiar with the broad policy and industry structure issues and the myriad critical details in these matters, both at wholesale and retail. We have advised numerous industry participants including utilities, independent power producers, power marketers, banks and investment funds, demand response providers, large end-use electricity customers and an RTO on competitive market structures at the wholesale and retail levels, capacity markets, third party access to transmission and distribution, market power, affiliate issues, spin-offs of generation assets, market monitoring and a wide range of related issues.
Representative Matters
- COMPETE, a major coalition of more than 680 electricity market participants including Exelon, PSEG, Wal-Mart, PPL Energy, Calpine, TXU Energy, Safeway, Tendril and Leggett & Platt on a wide range of federal and state electricity competition issues, including the structure of RTO markets and retail competition matters in numerous states including Texas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois, Virginia, Michigan, California, Oregon, Wisconsin, Arizona and Ohio.
- Electric Power Generation Association in presenting testimony regarding the benefits of competitive markets before the Public Utility Commission of Pennsylvania.
- COMPETE in intervening and participating in major proceedings brought by Duke Ohio and AEP before the Public Utility Commission of Ohio regarding retail competition and customer choice.
- A prominent national supplier in retail electricity markets with respect to the market structure, corporate disaggregation, supplier of last resort, and affiliate and market rules in more than a dozen states including Texas, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, Ohio, Maine and New York.
- SDG&E in extensive ongoing FERC refund proceedings arising from the California electricity crisis of 2000-2001.
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