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Katie E. Jorrie

Partner

T 415.276.6554 San Francisco
Understanding energy, both the technical and legal aspects, is the first step to understanding California's dynamic energy market.
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Katie Jorrie specializes in policies, regulations, and commercial transactions in the energy industry. She advises clients on the impact of new developments and emerging technologies on energy generation, transmission, and distribution. The rapidly evolving and highly variable energy and environmental sectors make growth and compliance enormously difficult for clients, and Katie understands this. As a former clerk for the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Administrative Law Judge Division, she has a multilateral understanding of CPUC processes and proclivities, and she often represents clients in state regulatory matters. Katie's work on regulatory compliance at the state level (CPUC, CEC, CAISO) is comprehensive and includes advising on GO 167 audits and investigations, demand response, state environmental goals, resource planning, energy efficiency, ratemaking, natural gas infrastructure/rates, and wildfire liability.

Katie is similarly versed in energy-related transactions, advising clients on the financing, development, build, and operation of solar, storage, geothermal, CCGT, RNG, and distributed energy resource developments. She represents clients in key commercial transactions, including wholesale and retail energy market transactions. Her practice also includes mergers and acquisitions of special purpose entities, sales and purchases of renewable project assets, and the purchase and sale of renewable energy credits (RECs). Katie's STEM degree provides her with a uniquely informed extra-legal perspective as well as proficiency in the language of her energy clients.

Practice Highlights

Regulatory compliance

Provided regulatory counsel for various clients including IOUs, POUs, ESPs, CCAs, project developers, and software companies, with special attention to matters of resource adequacy, integrated resource planning, renewables portfolio standards, and General Order 167 audits/investigations.

Project development/acquisition transactions

Counsel for numerous utility-scale solar, storage and RNG projects, including drafting and negotiating all purchase and sale agreements, engineering, procurement and construction agreements, power purchase agreements, interconnection agreements, and energy services agreements.

Wholesale/retail energy market transactions

Represents clients in wholesale and retail energy market transactions, including regulatory and transactional counsel for regulatory products (renewables portfolio standard, resource adequacy, ancillary services, etc.).

Admitted to Practice

  • California, 2014

Education

  • J.D., The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, 2014
    • Issue Editor, I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society
    • CALI Award Recipient for Trademarks and Public Utilities
    • Public Service Fellow with Recognition
  • B.S., Physical Geography, minor in Geology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011

Memberships & Affiliations

    • Energy Bar Association, 2014-2015
    • American Bar Association, 2013-2015
    • Ohio Court Appointed Mediator (Active 2012)

Professional Recognition

    • Listed as "Up and Coming" by Chambers USA in Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (California), 2025
    • Named "One to Watch" by Best Lawyers in Energy Law, 2024-2025

Background

    • Law Clerk, California Public Utilities Commission, Administrative Law Judge Division, San Francisco, 2014
    • Legislative Legal Intern, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Columbus, Ohio, 2013
    • Operations Legal Intern, Marathon Petroleum Company, Findlay, Ohio, 2013
    • Judicial Extern for Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, Supreme Court of Ohio, 2013
    • Legislation, Regulations and Urban Affairs Legal Intern, Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Washington, D.C., 2012
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