Society’s demand for clean, low-carbon energy is reshaping regulated energy utilities and markets, triggering an explosion of new technologies, fuels and market structures. This dynamic and opportunity rich landscape represents the majority of US energy consumption. Successfully operating in it requires experienced and informed counsel who know the industry intimately.

Womble Bond Dickinson’s clients include vertically integrated investor-owned utilities, solar developers and investors, electrical cooperatives, municipal utility systems, power and natural gas trading desks, major industrial energy users and offshore wind suppliers. Our attorneys are experienced in all technologies and energy sources including wind, solar, nuclear, biofuels, and water, among others. We have a long history of representing high-profile energy and utility clients in the courtroom, the board room, and before governmental agencies.  

Our team includes a former general counsel to a major electric and natural gas utility, an energy counsel to governors, attorneys general, and regulatory commission as well as the former Vice Chairman of the Committee on Gas and Electric Marketing at the American Bar Association and the former Vice Chair of the Committee on Power Generation and Marketing at the Energy Bar Association. Our attorneys offer decades of energy, utility and regulatory experience to help clients navigate changing energy markets and utility regulatory structures and imperatives.

    Our Services

    We provide multidisciplinary regulatory, transactional and litigation services related to siting and permitting of major generation and transmission facilities including:

    • Interconnection agreements and power purchase agreements 
    • Power purchases, renewable self-build and green tariff transactions
    • Utility rate cases – gas and electric
    • Energy project development
    • Market rules and compliance
    • Mergers and acquisitions
    • Electric and natural gas energy supply agreements 
    • FERC gas and electric transmission tariffs
    • Regional Transmission Organization stakeholder processes
    • Integrated resource planning
    • Wholesale electric water, and sewer contracts
    • Electric vehicle (EV) regulatory 
    • Energy and utility litigation
    • Right-of-way and easements 
    • Eminent domain
    • Avoided cost proceedings
    • State and local tax for offshore energy projects

    Society’s demand for clean, low-carbon energy is reshaping regulated energy utilities and markets, triggering an explosion of new technologies, fuels and market structures.

    This dynamic and opportunity rich landscape represents the majority of US energy consumption. Successfully operating in it requires experienced and informed counsel who know the industry intimately.

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    About Us

    Womble Bond Dickinson’s clients include vertically integrated investor-owned utilities, solar developers and investors, electrical cooperatives, municipal utility systems, power and natural gas trading desks, major industrial energy users and offshore wind suppliers. Our attorneys are experienced in all technologies and energy sources including wind, solar, nuclear, biofuels, and water, among others. We have a long history of representing high-profile energy and utility clients in the courtroom, the board room, and before governmental agencies.  

    Our team includes a former general counsel to a major electric and natural gas utility, an energy counsel to governors, attorneys general, and regulatory commission as well as the former Vice Chairman of the Committee on Gas and Electric Marketing at the American Bar Association and the former Vice Chair of the Committee on Power Generation and Marketing at the Energy Bar Association. Our attorneys offer decades of energy, utility and regulatory experience to help clients navigate changing energy markets and utility regulatory structures and imperatives.

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      What We Do

      We provide multidisciplinary regulatory, transactional and litigation services related to siting and permitting of major generation and transmission facilities including:

      • Interconnection agreements and power purchase agreements 
      • Power purchases, renewable self-build and green tariff transactions
      • Utility rate cases – gas and electric
      • Energy project development
      • Market rules and compliance
      • Mergers and acquisitions
      • Electric and natural gas energy supply agreements 
      • FERC gas and electric transmission tariffs
      • Regional Transmission Organization stakeholder processes
      • Integrated resource planning
      • Wholesale electric water, and sewer contracts
      • Electric vehicle (EV) regulatory 
      • Energy and utility litigation
      • Right-of-way and easements 
      • Eminent domain
      • Avoided cost proceedings
      • State and local tax for offshore energy projects