Lewis and Roca represents energy companies in regulatory and transactional matters, including power plant and transmission line siting, resource planning, renewable energy development, purchase power agreements, purchase and sale of energy providers, commercial contract negotiations and rate making. Our lawyers focusing in this area work closely with colleagues involved in the firm’s corporate, governmental relations, environmental and natural resources practices.
Currently we are involved in representing one of Arizona’s major utilities in its resource planning proceedings before the Arizona Corporation Commission. On numerous occasions, we have represented companies before the Arizona Power Plant and Transmission Line Siting Committee in siting power plants and both intrastate and interstate transmission lines. We also represented an Arizona-based electric utility in acquiring the regulatory approvals necessary to purchase another Arizona electric and gas utility.
In addition to working with traditional energy utilities, our lawyers are also active in the renewable energy area, for example, in the siting of the first large solar plant in Arizona. As part of this activity, we counseled our client on the interpretation and application of the new Arizona Renewable Energy Standards and proposed Net Metering Standards.
While we primarily represent investor-owned utilities and merchant power providers, we have also represented large industrial customers and commercial developers in negotiating and drafting energy and infrastructure agreements, most recently involving commercial scale distributed generation facilities.
Representative Matters
- Counsel to foreign power producers purchasing Arizona assets, including permit transfers and operational evaluations.
- Counsel to out of state power provider building and permitting new power plants and transmission lines in Arizona and Nevada.