Thomas DeVita is counsel in the firm’s Environment, Land, and Natural Resources practice group. A seasoned regulatory energy lawyer, he has extensive experience in wholesale electric power markets, electric transmission, generation interconnection, system planning, operations, emerging energy technologies, risk evaluation, state-jurisdictional interfaces, compliance, and corporate governance. He practices before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in areas encompassing Open Access Transmission Tariffs (OATTs), transmission planning and cost allocation, Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), energy storage resources, large and small generation interconnection, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) mandatory reliability standards, cost-of-service ratemaking, market-based rate authorization, transfers of FERC-jurisdictional facilities,, Public Utility accounting and the FERC Uniform System of Account (USofA), issuance of Public Utility dept, qualifying facilities under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), FERC Office of enforcement investigations and audits, and FERC-related administrative and federal appellate litigation.
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