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1730
Rhode Island Ave, NW
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036-3116
Telephone: 202.429.8800
Facsimile: 202.429.8805 |
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| Firm Practice |
| With our broad public and
private sector experience, John & Hengerer has assembled a
diversified energy practice, emphasizing natural gas, electric
utility, hydroelectric, cogeneration, and oil pipeline law. The
attorneys handle both federal and state regulatory matters,
along with contractual and other commercial aspects of the
energy business. John & Hengerer represents many clients before
the FERC in virtually all areas of that agency's regulatory
jurisdiction, as well as before the Department of Energy, and
also in service restructuring proceedings before many state
regulatory commissions. Firm members have argued a number of
appellate cases before the D.C. and Fifth Circuits, and are
admitted in, and have participated in cases before, a number of
other U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and the United States
Supreme Court.
The Firm represents or advises a
broad spectrum of energy clients, including natural gas
producers, processors, and marketers; gas and liquids pipeline
operators; gas storage companies, large industrial and municipal
end-users of gas, a commodity futures exchange, several
publicly-owned electric utilities, a number of cogenerators, and
several power marketers. Our clients are based in the U.S.,
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| The Firm's natural gas practice
is extensive, both in terms of its scope and depth. Representing
a variety of clients, the Firm actively participated in all the
major pipeline open-access (Order No. 436) and unbundling (Order
Nos. 636 and 637) proceedings. Members had previously been active in the
early stages of the open-access carriage movement. The Firm's
practice also includes extensive experience in pipeline rate
proceedings before the FERC. As well, the
Firm has actively represented clients in state-level LDC
unbundling and comparability-of-service proceedings, and in
general LDC rate proceedings affecting the interests of
third-party suppliers and end-use customers of the LDCs. The
Firm has been actively engaged in the development of hubs and
market centers. Members have also been active participants on
behalf of Firm clients in voluntary industry working groups on
grid integration and electronic bulletin boards. The Firm
represents and advises a number of major clients on regulatory
matters relating to the development of gas pipeline and storage
projects, and large gas-fired independent power projects. |
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Electric
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| The Firm's experience in this
field includes direct involvement in a broad variety of
regulatory proceedings before FERC, DOE, CFTC, RUS, and a number
of state commissions.
The Firm has been actively involved
in the proceedings by which the FERC is attempting generically
to foster competition in the electric power industry. These
include (i) the development of largely self-governing Regional
Transmission Groups and (ii) the promulgation of standards for
pricing of third-party transmission services. Since issuance
of the Commission's open access transmission rule in 1996
(Order No. 888), the Firm has continued its active involvement
in proceedings before the Commission relating to the filing of
open access transmission tariffs by public utilities and the
development of regional power exchanges and independent system
operators.
Since its inception, the Firm
has been engaged by the New York Mercantile Exchange to provide
legal counsel regarding the development of electric futures and
options contracts. The Firm also represents clients in state
proceedings regarding the restructuring of retail electric
service offerings. In addition, the Firm has prepared and filed
applications for approval of power marketer blanket rate
schedules to permit the self-implementing sale-for-resale of
power and energy generated by others at market-based rates, as
well as applications for authority to transmit electricity to
Canada and Mexico. The Firm also provides general advice in this
area to a number of clients.
Similar to its gas work, the
Firm has expanded its representation of its clients to numerous
state-level electric unbundling and restructuring proceedings.
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Oil/Liquids Transportation |
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| The Firm also represents and advises a
number of clients on matters involving the interstate carriage
by pipeline of oil and liquids under the Interstate Commerce Act
(administered by the FERC). Our clients include both entities
owning and operating oil and/or liquids pipelines, as well as
entities dependent on the provision by others of regulated
"common carriage" service by means of such pipelines. |
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The Firm has installed state-of-the-art computing and telecommunications applications and has assembled a strong
technical support team. As a
result, the Firm operates with a very high degree of efficiency
and has institutionalized a variety of procedures to ensure
that its members are informed of developments affecting the
industry on a real-time basis. |
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