Our Practice

We are dedicated to the representation of investor-owned electric companies, transmission and distribution utilities, electric cooperatives, water and telecommunications utilities, intrastate natural gas pipelines, common carriers of natural gas liquids and crude petroleum, and natural gas distribution utilities before municipalities and state regulatory agencies, including the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and Railroad Commission of Texas (RCT), as well as the Texas courts.

Practice Areas

  • Merger and acquisition approval proceedings, as well as compliance due diligence for potential acquisition of regulated interests
  • Transmission and distribution cost of service rate proceedings for electric utilities
  • Transmission line Certificates of Convenience and Necessity
  • Distribution cost recovery factor filings
  • Energy efficiency cost recovery
  • Storm cost recovery, securitization, and true-up
  • Fuel factor and fuel/purchased power cost reconciliation matters
  • Federal tax reform proceedings
  • Market power proceedings
  • Rulemaking proceedings
  • Code of Conduct matters
  • Reliability and service quality matters
  • Agency investigations and enforcement matters
  • ERCOT protocol issues, including complaints against ERCOT or Texas RE
  • Wholesale and retail tariff disputes
  • Multi-jurisdictional change in control proceedings for electric utility transitioning to Regional Transmission Organization
  • Agency investigations and enforcement matters, including customer complaints
  • Defense in appeal of Public Utility Commission of Texas order dismissing a customer complaint for lack of jurisdiction
  • Defense in lawsuit alleging Deceptive Trade Practices Act claims by a customer against an electric utility
  • Cost of service rate cases for investor-owned distribution and transmission utilities
  • Gas Reliability Infrastructure Program Adjustment (GRIP) proceedings
  • Municipal annual rate adjustment proceedings
  • Federal tax reform proceedings
  • NGPA Section 311 rates
  • Natural gas gathering, processing, compression, transmission, and storage
  • Eminent domain and easements
  • Tariff administration
  • Rulemaking proceedings
  • Pipeline safety compliance
  • Merger and acquisition proceedings, as well as compliance due diligence for potential acquisition of regulated interests
  • Pipeline permitting
  • Common carrier regulation
  • Customer complaints
  • Investigations and enforcement actions
  • Appeal to Texas Supreme Court from Railroad Commission of Texas decision on Gas Reliability Infrastructure Program rulemaking
  • Defense in Appeal of Railroad Commission of Texas decision granting formula rate tariff
  • Defense in Appeal of Railroad Commission of Texas decision granting system-wide rate implementation
  • Appeal of Public Utility Commission of Texas order on proposed acquisition of Oncor Electric Delivery Company
  • Appeals of Public Utility Commission of Texas and Railroad Commission of Texas decision on cost of service recovery
  • Texas Universal Service Fund, including Eligible Telecommunications Carrier Designations
  • Certificates of Operating Authority and Service Provider Certificates of Operating Authority Applications
  • Certificate of Convenience and Necessity Amendments
  • Service Market Deregulation Applications
  • Regulatory Compliance and Reporting
  • Pole Attachments
  • Interconnection Agreements
  • Wholesale Water Rate Public Interest Review under Public Utility Commission of Texas Rules
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