Ater Wynne's expertise in energy and regulated industries law runs deep. For more than 40 years, we have served a broad range of clients involved in power use, regulation and development throughout the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada and California.
Our clients are regional, national and multinational companies and include municipal utilities, electric cooperatives, investor owned utilities, tribal governments and enterprises, utility associations, transmission providers, irrigation districts, and private developers of small hydro, wind, geothermal, and cogeneration projects. The firm provides counsel to the broad range of clients involved in power regulation, including municipal utilities, electric cooperatives, utility districts, transmission providers and irrigation districts. Our advice involves such areas as rate and other regulatory proceedings, power supply negotiations, transmission issues, environmental matters, labor and employee issues, general corporate matters, legislative affairs, and litigation.
Ater Wynne has unparalleled experience in all phases of regulated industries representation, including: transactions with energy producers, developers, fuel suppliers, utilities and consumers, land use and environmental siting and permitting assessments, evaluations and licensing, renewable resources and alternative energy projects, project finance, litigation before regulatory agencies concerning rates and cost allocation, revenue requirement, power supply, transmission, project licensing, air quality, land use and other substantive issues.
Ater Wynne is actively involved with the development and access to market issues of alternative energy projects including wind, biomass and hydro. We represent energy clients in dispute mediation and arbitration, administrative and judicial forums. The firm also serves as the Portland host site for monthly renewable energy teleconferences sponsored by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE).
Related Industries:
Energy
Food & Beverage
Manufacturing
Natural Resources
Real Estate/Construction
Technology & Telecom
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Columbia River People’s Utility District (OR)
Diné Power Authority (AZ)
Eagle Crest, Inc. (OR)
Golden Valley Electric Association, Inc. (AK)
Idaho Power Company (ID)
International Bio Fuels Corp. (NV)
Jefferson County Public Utility District (WA)
March Point Cogeneration Co. (WA)
Railbelt Utilities Group (AK)
Southeast Alaska Power Agency (AK)
Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WA)
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- Lead energy counsel for Golden Valley Electric Association, Inc., a Fairbanks-based electric and telecommunications utility, since 1984. Work includes corporate, financial, and litigation, including power purchase, generation and transmission development.
- General counsel to Columbia River People’s Utility District (Columbia County, Oregon).
- Energy counsel to City of Centralia Utilities (Centralia, WA) with its power contracts with Bonneville Power Administration and service territory issues.
- Energy counsel for Okanogan County PUD with its power contracts with Bonneville Power Administration and Douglas County PUD.
- Lead counsel for SEAPA (Southeast Alaska Power Agency).
- Lead counsel for Diné Power Authority (Navajo Nation) in construction and financing of transmission line facilities.
- Energy and regulatory counsel for Idaho Power Company with its rate and regulatory matters in Oregon, wind generation contract negotiations, gas commodity and transportation issues, and Energy Facility Siting Council filings.
- Lead counsel for Columbia River People’s Utility District’s annexation of Columbia City, St. Helens and Scappoose and acquisition of PGE’s facilities in those service areas.
- Regulatory counsel for Golden Valley Electric Association’s acquisition of the electric utility operated by Fairbanks Municipal Utility System (Fairbanks, Alaska).
- Regulatory counsel for Oregon Electric Utility Company, LLC in its acquisition of Portland General Electric Corporation (Portland, Oregon) before the Oregon Public Utilities Commission.
- Regulatory counsel for Sierra Pacific Resources’ acquisition of Portland General Electric Corporation (Portland, Oregon) before the Oregon and Nevada Public Utilities Commissions.
- Counsel to Energy Northwest in the sale of a 50MW wind project to AVISTA Corporation.
- Lead counsel for RPL Holdings, Inc. (Minnetonka, MN) and Renewable Power & Light PLC (London, England) in acquisitions of generation facilities and conversion of facilities from natural gas to biomass generation.
- Energy counsel for Northwest Regional Power, LLC with its bid to develop and operate 150 megawatts of diesel-fired generation in Brazil.
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Energy Attorneys:
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Joel R. Paisner (Contact, Seattle)
Jonathan A. Ater
Wallace A. Glausi
Gregg D. Johnson
Nathan A. Karman
Akana K.J. Ma
Douglas C. MacCourt
Claudia K. Powers
John M. Schultz
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