Practices & industries
Energy Storage
Overview
As the United States moves toward its 2030 clean energy targets, energy storage resources offer unique and critical capabilities for the future management of the nation's natural gas and electric infrastructure. Electric storage—whether stand-alone or hybrid, utility-scale or behind the meter—presents challenges of rapidly evolving technologies and markets along with changing laws and regulations and unclear boundaries between the intersection of federal and state jurisdictions. In addition, conventional natural gas storage projects present a host of regulatory, rate, tariff, compliance and permitting issues.
Day Pitney's energy attorneys have a wide range of experience counseling clients as they navigate the complex and evolving legal issues relating to the siting, financing, development, interconnection and regulation of energy and natural gas storage projects across the country. Our attorneys are equally adept at advising clients in all stages of a project—from the initial meetings with regulatory staff to the operation of the project as well as handling the myriad regulatory, enforcement and compliance matters that routinely arise in the life cycle of a project.
Beyond our energy practice, Day Pitney attorneys offer skill in a range of additional legal services necessary for energy storage clients, from real estate and environmental matters to intellectual property and tax.
Experience
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
- Represent an institutional investor in investment in a portfolio of solar and energy storage facilities in multiple states
- Assist clients with development and negotiation of services agreements for a variety of demand response/battery storage programs for commercial and industrial customers
- Represent a stand-alone storage developer with regard to real estate, regulatory, permitting and other development issues in several Northeastern states
- Assist clients with navigating the complexities of the energy wholesale markets rules in relation to storage projects
- Provide risk assessment and advise clients with regard to project compliance with energy market requirements
- Counsel storage entities on requirements, obligations and procedures to facilitate interconnection to the grid to participate in the wholesale market
- Represent several Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)-regulated liquid natural gas (LNG) and natural gas storage companies on certificate, audit, enforcement, and rate and tariff matters
- Represent a natural gas storage company in the development and/or the acquisition of several FERC-jurisdictional assets throughout the Gulf Coast and the Southwestern United States
- Represent a local distribution company with respect to the FERC compliance and regulatory obligations associated with its New England-based LNG peaking facility
