Energy Law into the 21st Century
Meeting Client Needs in an Era of Change
The energy industry remains an area of change and uncertainty. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and some state commissions continue to spur the development of competition in both wholesale and retail energy markets. At the same time, other state commissions are striving to preserve the traditional model of cost-based rate regulation of vertically integrated service providers. This hybrid system of competitive market structures and monopoly utility regulation has further increased the complexity and challenges confronting participants in the energy business.
Diverse Industry Expertise
To achieve their business goals, companies must carefully navigate the shoals of both competitive market structures and traditional utility regulation. DWT's experienced and innovative lawyers regularly assist clients to accomplish their objectives.
DWT offers a nationally integrated energy law practice with highly accomplished energy lawyers in our West Coast and Washington, D.C. offices. We provide a comprehensive and coordinated approach at state, local and federal levels to address increasingly multi-jurisdictional and multidimensional issues.
DWT’s energy lawyers have substantial industry experience. Collectively, members of this practice group have worked in-house at the largest investor-owned, federal and municipal utilities in the United States. DWT energy lawyers also have served as senior officials at the FERC, the California Public Utilities Commission and the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as senior counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
DWT lawyers are at the cutting edge of the ongoing restructuring of U.S. energy markets. Our hands-on experience in electric and natural gas markets provides us with in-depth insight into the commercial opportunities and corresponding challenges emanating from these changes. DWT attorneys also offer unparalleled expertise in the traditional regulatory area, participating in rate, licensing, environmental, enforcement and other regulatory proceedings before FERC, state public utility commissions, federal power marketing administrations, and state siting and water quality agencies.
Our Services
DWT provides comprehensive, focused and high quality legal services throughout the United States and in numerous foreign jurisdictions. We assist clients, including energy producers and suppliers, project developers, energy consumers and energy industry investors to best understand markets and regulatory structures, and to take advantage of opportunities arising from this complex landscape. We are intimately familiar with all aspects of the energy and related industries (public utility, telecommunications, environmental, water, real estate, land use, petroleum refining, natural resources, tax, corporate, financing, antitrust and eCommerce).
We specialize in achieving solutions to meet client needs and in state-of-the-art transactions for which there are no models or precedents. We place a high premium on personal service, responsiveness and cost effective, practical counseling.
We represent clients in all aspects of energy law, including:
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