FERC PJM Order: Lessons for Data Centers, Co-Location, and Tariffs

Mr. Humes advises clients on clean energy project development and finance, including renewables, nuclear facilities, powering data centers, including grid-scale and net-metered solar photovoltaics (PV), offshore wind, battery energy storage systems and geothermal. For decades, he has advised clients on energy transactional, regulatory and environmental issues, including those associated with conventional and renewable power plant development, cogeneration, liquefied natural gas and pipeline facilities, geothermal and other utility infrastructure matters. Mr. Humes energy-related environmental experience includes advising clients on environmental due diligence, permitting, environmental justice and climate change issues. He guides clients through state and federal administrative proceedings, including advancing rate cases in administrative litigation and defending clients in enforcement actions. Mr. Humes also counsels clients on a full range of state and federal environmental compliance and enforcement matters and handles energy and environmental issues effectively in corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures of power plants, nuclear facilities and renewable energy portfolios.

Ms. Lauterbach is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office. She has extensive experience providing regulatory and transactional advice to energy companies, large energy users, and their investors. Ms. Lautenbach represents renewable and traditional energy companies, including investor-owned utilities, independent transmission companies, independent power producers, energy investors, natural gas companies, and pipeline shippers in a variety of regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters. She also advises data center developers, investors, and lenders on all aspects of development and administration of data center power supply arrangements. Ms. Lauterbach advises clients regarding the Federal Power Act (FPA), the Natural Gas Act (NGA), the Interstate Commerce Act and related federal and state statutes, as well as requirements under public utility tariffs and agreements.