Stephen Hug

Energy & Infrastructure

Energy Transition

Energy Regulation, Markets & Enforcement

Stephen Hug is an energy regulatory partner in Akin’s Projects & Energy Transition practice, based in Washington, D.C. Stephen advises clients on regulatory, commercial and transactional matters across the U.S. power sector, with a focus on the electric and renewable energy industries. He represents utilities, developers and other market participants in matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and under the Federal Power Act, including wholesale power trading, centralized energy and capacity markets, transmission and interconnection, enforcement and compliance, and contested proceedings before FERC.

Stephen also has experience with state regulatory regimes, including renewable energy credits, net metering programs, interconnection issues, renewable portfolio standards, retail choice frameworks and procurement processes for offshore wind and other renewable resources. In addition, he regularly negotiates commercial agreements, including agreements for the sale of energy, capacity and ancillary services, power purchase agreements, tolling agreements, non-wires alternative agreements and transactions involving environmental attributes. Stephen is recognized by The Legal 500 US in Energy Regulatory: Conventional Power (2020–2021).

Chair, International Energy Law and Transactions Committee, Energy Bar Association, 2013–2014; Vice-Chair, 2012–2013

J.D., American University, Washington College of Law, cum laude, 2009; LL.B., University of Ottawa, Ontario, cum laude, 2009; B.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, summa cum laude, 2005