Electric and Natural Gas Utility Law

Brickfield, Burchette, Ritts & Stone, P.C. represents wholesale and retail buyers of electricity and natural gas in determining optimal energy strategies, in contract and transactional matters, and in litigation before federal and state courts and agencies. Our firm has an established reputation for skillful, creative, and aggressive advocacy of its clients' interests in obtaining economically priced energy resources. We are counsel to many industrial users of electricity and natural gas and numerous rural electric cooperatives and other public power utilities that buy power for resale. Our lawyers have litigated or advised clients on the following areas, among others:

• Electric and natural gas supply contracts and rates
• Transmission service access, rates, and terms for electricity
• Independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission organizations (RTOs)
• Transportation service access, rates, and terms for natural gas
• Certificates of convenience and necessity
• Utility financing
• Independent generation sales
• Electric and natural gas company mergers
• Anti-trust
• Intellectual property
• State restructuring
• Federal and state energy legislation
• State and local economic development incentives

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