Douglas W. Everette is of counsel in Barnes & Thornburg's Indianapolis and Washington, D.C., offices and is a member of the Corporate Department and the Energy, Telecommunications and Utilities Practice Group.
Douglas concentrates his practice on the representation of investor-owned utilities, independent power producers, renewable resources, municipalities, cooperatives, power marketers, industrials and power project developers on the energy regulatory aspects for the financing, development, acquisition and disposition of energy assets. His practice also focuses on representing telecommunications providers on transactional and regulatory matters and providing counsel respecting Dodd-Frank Act compliance for electric utilities, cooperatives and power marketers.
Douglas is experienced in addressing issues relating to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) implementation of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005), participation in competitive wholesale energy markets, including auctions and the Day-Ahead and Real-Time energy and capacity markets in MISO, PJM, NYISO, ISO-NE, SPP, CAISO and the ERCOT regions. Douglas also counsels on RTO/ISO market rules development and interpretation, Order 1000 compliance, interconnection and wheeling matters, demand response, public utility holding company and affiliate dealings. He also is experienced in market-based tariff and cost-based rate filings.
He also counsels on hydroelectric licensing, permitting, due diligence and regulatory compliance matters. He actively advises on compliance with the reliability standards of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), and compliance with FERC's Standards of Conduct and Affiliate Restrictions for transmission providers. Energy clients turn to Douglas for counsel on Natural Gas Act issues, annual reporting requirements, tariffs, pipeline and lateral extensions, storage, drafting of facilities agreements. He serves as regulatory compliance counsel with the Pennsylvania Pipeline Act 127 and with pipeline safety and siting compliance with the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) regulations.
Douglas has served as special energy counsel on transactions totaling $9.8 billion, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) counsel on transactions totaling $186 million, and has negotiated and drafted fixed-for-floating intercreditor financing structures for oil and gas transactions totaling $2.9 billion.
Douglas negotiates and drafts power purchase and sales agreements, operations and maintenance agreements, site lease agreements, tolling arrangements, balancing area authority arrangements, interconnection and wheeling arrangements, solar PV site leases, commodity purchase and sale agreements, including ISDAs, EEIs and NAESBs, and intercreditor agreements. He also advises energy and manufacturing clients on environmental law matters including EPA regulatory compliance, greenhouse gas emissions matters and related Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act compliance.
