North America - United States • Energy
McGuireWoods LLP
Handling the full gamut of FERC enforcement proceedings, McGuireWoods LLP‘s varied workload extends to disputes related to reliability-must-run (RMR) units, the transition from stated transmission rates to forward-looking formula rates, and the unauthorized use of transmission systems. Todd Mullins excels in enforcement and compliance disputes involving various regulators such as FERC and NERC, and related private litigation. Mullins leads the Washington DC-based practice alongside Noel Symons, whose capabilities encompass disputes arising from cross-jurisdictional matters, the design of markets for energy, transmission planning, and cost allocation. With particular proficiency in matters related to the development, ownership and operation of electric generation and transmission projects, Julia English regularly represents electric generation and transmission owners, developers, financial institutions and investors, while Katlyn Davis Farrell is well versed in handling matters regarding cost-based and market-based rates, generator interconnection, and RTO/ISO tariffs.
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Key clients
- Exelon Corporation
- Constellation Energy
- Edison Electric Institute (EEI)
- NRG Energy Inc.
- Alabama Power Company
- Georgia Power Company
- Mississippi Power Company
- Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- Dalton Utilities
- Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc.
- Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC
- Duke Energy Progress, LLC
- Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company
- Georgia System Operations Corporation
- Georgia Transmission Corporation
- Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG Power)
- North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation
- North Carolina Municipal Power Agency Number 1
- Oglethorpe Power Corporation
- PowerSouth Energy Cooperative
- South Carolina Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper)
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- PSE&G
- Dominion Energy, Inc
- Dominion Energy Virginia
- Black Hills Corporation
Work highlights
- Represented Edison Electric Institute (EEI), Electric Power SupplyAssociation (EPSA), and Energy Trading Institute (ETI) in an amicus brief in support of the statute of limitations arguments made by Vitol, Inc. and in opposition to arguments made byFERC in a case in which FERC requested over $2.7 million worth of penalties and disgorgement and fined one of Vitol'semployees $1m after concluding its trading activity manipulated California electricity markets.
- Represented Constellation (f/k/a Exelon) in a novel reliability-must-run (RMR) case to keep Exelon’s Mystic Generating Plant (Mystic), a facility adjacent to an affiliate-owned liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, operational to provide fuel security in ISO-New England.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Todd Mullins, Noel Symons