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Nora Sheriff is a Shareholder in Buchalter’s San Francisco office and a member of the Firm’s Energy & Natural Resources Practice Group. With decades of experience in the energy industry, Ms. Sheriff focuses her practice on electric and natural gas regulatory and administrative litigation, legislative efforts, and end-use contractual transactions; she works to ensure clean energy tools are available for large end-use customer use to help mitigate the impacts of the high cost of California power on California manufacturing and avoid carbon emissions leakage by keeping manufacturing in California. Her clients include cement, steel, industrial gas, pipeline, mining, beverage, food packaging and cold storage industry corporations, oil and gas energy companies working to advance a lower carbon future, as well as wholesale demand response providers, scheduling coordinator/distributed energy resource aggregators, integration technology solutions providers and renewable energy systems developers. Ms. Sheriff represents large power customers and clean power stakeholders, informs, and helps shape California’s energy policy debates, and advocates for clean energy and large end-user ratepayer interests.

Ms. Sheriff also advises clients on clean energy and climate change aspects of the Inflation Reduction Act and its impact on transactions, regulatory ramifications and tax credit benefits, including ITC, PTC and the newly added credits for storage and other technologies.

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Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation - California

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Nora Sheriff of Buchalter, A Professional Corporation focuses her practice on the energy space and advises on both regulatory advice and administrative proceedings, the latter of which includes representation before the CPUC. Her clients include large customers and other market participants.

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Nora Sheriff
Samir Hafez
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Nora Sheriff, Samir Hafez
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Nora Sheriff
Antonio Carrejo
Efrat Cogan
Gwenneth O’Hara
Robert Dato
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Nora Sheriff, Antonio Carrejo, Efrat Cogan, Gwenneth O’Hara, Robert Dato and more
Article • Mar 2026
Global Practice Guide
Nora Sheriff
Samir Hafez
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Nora Sheriff, Samir Hafez
Article • Jun 2025

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Power Generation, Transmission & Distribution 2025 | USA – California | Law and Practice
Authored by: Nora Sheriff, Antonio Carrejo, Elisa Rivas, Gwenneth O’Hara, Samir Hafez
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