Stephen Snyder represents energy clients in a broad range of transactions and regulatory, compliance, and litigation matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state regulatory commissions.
His transactional representations include advising independent power producers, transmission-owning utilities, pipeline companies, renewable, energy storage, and traditional project developers, electric cooperatives, and lenders in drafting and negotiating wholesale and retail power purchase agreements; generation and transmission interconnection, affected system, and distribution service agreements; electric generation and transmission facility purchase and sale and financing agreements; fuel supply, O&M, operator, off-take and energy services agreements; pipeline gathering, storage, and interconnection agreements; renewable power purchase and lease arrangements, and REC purchase and sale agreements; and physical and financial power and gas commodity agreements.
Stephen also represents clients in a broad range of regulatory matters, including developing and supporting formula transmission and reactive rates in contested proceedings, securing prior approvals for buying and selling FERC jurisdictional facilities and issuing securities, compliance obligations for public utilities and public utility holding companies, advising on RTO/ISO tariff and business practices (particularly involving proposed or desirable changes impacting generation interconnection or participation in capacity and ancillary services markets), qualifying facility and interconnecting utility rights and obligations under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, and oil and gas pipeline tariff and state and federal jurisdictional issues.
