Dietrich C. Hoefner

Dietrich focuses his practice on complex regulatory matters for a wide range of clients across numerous industries including energy, utilities, natural resources, and alcoholic beverages. Dietrich is also a member of the firm’s renewable energy decommissioning industry team, focusing on strategies to address and anticipate changing regulations affecting end-of-life issues for renewable energy facilities. His experience includes matters related to:

• Regulated and cooperative utilities, including transmission planning, rate-regulation, and complaint cases before state public utilities commissions.
• Environmental permitting for renewable energy, mining, and industrial projects.
• Development of mining and energy projects on public lands.
• Purchase and sale of properties with significant water, mineral, or other natural resource components.
• Hazardous substances issues related to real estate sales and developments.
• Wetlands issues, including waters of the United States determinations and Clean Water Act Section 404 permitting.
• State and federal liquor licensing and regulation, including new licenses, transfers of ownership, defense of state liquor code investigations, license renewals, and other areas relating to the regulation of liquor-licensed businesses.

Prior to joining the firm, Dietrich was an attorney at the Colorado Office of the Attorney General, where he worked on energy utility and consumer protection matters. He was also a research fellow at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, where he focused on energy regulation.