Kimberly Frank

Practice Areas

Kimberly Frank is a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, and is a member of the power practice group. Kimberly represents clients in a broad array of electric utility regulatory matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state regulatory agencies and in appeals of these agencies’ decisions.

Kimberly helps clients navigate the complex rules of the FERC-regulated regional wholesale markets. She helps them evaluate and advocate for rule changes in the energy, capacity, and ancillary services markets administered by the regional transmission organizations (RTOs). She represents clients in the RTO stakeholder process, and before FERC and the appellate courts on myriad issues including the capacity markets in the eastern RTOs. She also advises clients regarding FERC’s regulation of transmission service, rates, and tariff provisions and of regional transmission cost allocation.

Kimberly represents clients in administrative hearings and settlement proceedings, rulemakings, technical conferences, and enforcement matters before FERC. She advises clients in developing strategies for litigation and prepares complaints, protests, comments and other pleadings filed with the agency. She works regularly with economists, engineers, accountants, financial analysts, and other electric utility industry experts.

Kimberly counsels clients developing renewable energy facilities, regulated by FERC on PURPA, PUHCA and FPA compliance. She assists clients with interconnections to transmission systems and with regulatory compliance matters related to federal- and state-regulated electric power transactions.

Before her legal career, Kimberly was research faculty with a law and economics think tank in the Department of Economics, University of Maryland College Park.

Professional Memberships

Charitable Foundation of the Energy Bar Association - Member, Board of Directors

Energy Bar Association - Member, Board of Directors (May 2016 - 2019)

Women’s Council on Energy and the Environment

Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia

Maryland State Bar Association, Section on Environment & Energy Law

District of Columbia Bar Association, Section on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources

Publications

“Reactive Power Compensation for Renewable Energy Facilities: Opportunity Amidst Change,” Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law Section Report, January 2023

“Lessons From FERC New England Capacity Market Settlement,” Law360, 29 July 2022

“Key Provisions of FERC’s 2021 Enforcement Report,” Pratt’s Energy Law Report, February 2022

FERC Enforcement In 2021: A Year Of Change, Law360, 3 January 2022

Series and survey, Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operation, “Manufacturers Show Interest in, But Lack Awareness of, Energy Demand Response Programs,” Jan/Feb. 2014, and “Demand Response Programs Lower Electricity Costs, But Also Pose Risks,” Nov. 2013.

“Federal Courts Thwart State Efforts to Develop New Generation for Reliability,” New England Consumer Liaison Group, Nov. 2013.

“Ominous News for State Energy Commissions,” Law360 Expert Analysis, Oct. 2013.

“Rethinking Capacity Markets: A Pragmatic New Approach to Assuring Reliability,” Public Utilities Fortnightly, May 2013.

Education