A vibrant domestic energy industry is crucial to the economic, physical and ecological well-being of our nation.  But the era of cheap, fossil-fuel based energy is already a distant memory. In today’s economy, the source of energy matters, resulting in a new, complex and rapidly evolving legal environment for both traditional energy providers and the emerging renewable energy marketplace.  While opportunities abound in the new energy economy, so do challenges – regulatory, financial and environmental. 

Tonkon Torp's experienced energy attorneys provide interdisciplinary counsel to both renewable and traditional energy generators, manufacturers and utilities.  Building on a long history of representing traditional utilities in regulatory, finance, permitting and ownership issues, the firm has developed a strong reputation for providing able counsel to major players in the wind, solar and other renewable energy sectors. 

Our experience covers a broad spectrum of the energy industry.  Notable examples include:
  • Counsel to electric utility in rate proceedings, renewable portfolio plan dockets, integrated resource plans, power cost adjustments, deferred accounting applications, annual utility tax adjustments, and rulemaking dockets before state public utility commissions.
  • Real estate and title counsel on RES Americas' 1,450 MW Lower Snake River wind energy project in southeastern Washington.  The project, involving over 100 separate legal parcels, was sold to Puget Sound Energy (PSE) and now comprises an important part of PSE's renewable energy portfolio. 
  • Real estate, employment and general business counsel for Element Power US, a Portland-based developer of high-quality utility-scale wind and solar projects throughout the United States. 
  • Regulatory counsel to investor-owned electric utility in power and transmission rate proceedings before the Bonneville Power Administration, including the establishment of BPA's wind integration rate.
  • Oregon counsel to a consortium of national lenders on the financing of the Eurus – Combine Hills II wind power facility in Umatilla County, Oregon.
Because our energy practice group combines the firm's expertise in multiple areas of law, Tonkon Torp can tailor a team of experts to provide knowledgeable, thoughtful and cost-effective advice on any kind of energy project or problem, including: 
  • Generation, transmission and distribution
  • Development, construction and operations
  • Financing, taxation and state and federal incentive programs
  • Regulatory compliance and administrative law
  • Real estate, title, siting and permitting
  • Environmental regulation, including emerging carbon and climate change regulation
  • Litigation
  • Corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions
  • Government relations

 

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