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Orr & Reno's energy and environmental practice group is a knowledgeable and skilled team of attorneys who have extensive experience assisting clients with a broad range of energy and environment-related needs, including regulatory compliance, and the acquisition, operation and sale of facilities and other interests. In addition, Orr & Reno regularly assists clients in the development of energy projects and provides comprehensive support in connection with financing, siting, permitting, construction and taxation of new energy facilities. Orr & Reno also assists real estate developers and other commercial and industrial consumers of energy with energy-related issues. The firm's clients include electric and gas utilities, independent (merchant) generators, competitive electric suppliers, competitive electric and gas aggregators, commercial, industrial and residential customers, and owners and developers of generation projects, including commercial wind energy, hydroelectric and biomass facilities.
The group has over seventy five (75) years of combined experience representing these interests before various tribunals, including the N.H. Public Utilities Commission, the N.H. Site Evaluation Committee, the N.H. Department of Environmental Services and the New Hampshire courts.
Practice Focus
Orr & Reno represents energy clients in a broad range of concerns, including:
Regulatory
Energy
- Distribution rate cases and related proceedings
- Periodic Rate adjustment proceedings
- Special contracts
- roceedings relating to deregulation, and competitive generation and supply issues
- Transmission issues
Siting approval, permits and general regulatory compliance
- Merger and Acquisition approvals
- Energy efficiency
- Rulemaking proceedings
Environmental
- Federal and state air permits, including Clean Air Act Title V permits, and related operational
compliance issues
- Federal storm water and water discharge permits for construction and industrial operations
compliance counseling for air, water, waste and energy issues
- Federal and regional greenhouse gas compliance counseling
- Environmental due diligence, brownfields and related liability protections
- State-related determinations for pollution control tax exemptions
- Energy-related certifications and funding
Commercial/Transactional
- Utility mergers and acquisitions
- Due diligence for parties interested in purchasing or financing utility development
- Power purchase agreements
- Interconnection agreements
- Contract negotiation and restructuring
- Transactions related to generation facilities including property sale, acquisition and financing
- Real estate matters, e.g. leases, easements, conservation easements, deeds, etc.
Local and Municipal
- Local land use and municipal permitting concerns
- Taxation issues, including PILOT agreements, tax abatements and exemptions
- Pollution control and other environmental exemptions
Litigation
- Litigation, including administrative, trial court and appellate matters
- Power purchase agreements
- Contract disputes
- Bankruptcy
- Appellate litigation of regulatory decisions
- Tax Abatement
Governmental Relations
- Governmental services including legislative and executive branch advocacy
Representative Matters
- Representing regulated electric and natural gas utilities, independent power producers, merchant generating facilities and customer groups before the New Hampshire Public Utility Commission
- Representing energy producers and developers in all aspects of environmental permitting, compliance, site assessment and remediation.
- Representing wind energy developers before the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee
- Advising energy clients on the acquisition and operation of biomass and gas-fired merchant power plants
- Representing energy clients involving interests in nuclear generating facilities
- Assisting clients in the licensing and operation of hydroelectric generating facilities
Business and Industry Sectors Represented
- Independent power producers
- Merchant-generating facilities
- Lenders to both regulated and unregulated utilities
- Electric power producers
- Electric, water, and natural gas utilities
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