Doreen U Saia

Practice Areas

Government Law & Policy

Infrastructure

Energy & Natural Resources

Energy Litigation

Career

Doreen U. Saia, Chair of the Albany office Energy & Natural Resources Practice, has a wide-ranging energy law practice focused on the representation of national and international corporations that own and operate electric generating facilities and engage in financial transactions trading electricity products. She has been actively involved in state and federal regulatory proceedings concerning the deregulation of electricity markets throughout the Northeast, the siting of new generating facilities and cost-of-service ratemaking. Doreen was instrumental in developing the structure of the New York Independent System Operator, the independent administrator of the New York wholesale electric markets, and continues to play a pivotal role in the ongoing development of the competitive wholesale market in New York. She has also been engaged in the development of the competitive markets in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, including efforts to design pay for performance mechanisms to address market power mitigation considerations and to address the accommodation of State public policy issues.

Concentrations:

Energy law

Governmental affairs

Environmental law

Commercial law

Professional Memberships

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Federal Energy Bar Association

Member, New York State Bar Association

Past President, Northeast Chapter of the Federal Energy Bar Association

Publications

Listed, Chambers Global, Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation), 2022.

Listed, Chambers USA Guide; Nationwide - Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation), 2021-2022; New York - Energy: State Regulatory & Wholesale Electric Market, 2008-2022.

Personal

J.D., magna cum laude, Washington and Lee University School of Law, 1993.

B.A., Williams College, 1988.