Practice Areas
Valerie Green focuses her practice on electricity, natural gas, renewable energy, and regulatory and compliance issues involving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and other administrative agencies. Clients rely on Valerie’s responsiveness, attention to detail, and expertise in regulatory process and precedent in proceedings involving administrative litigation, compliance audits and investigations, and appellate litigation before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit).
Valerie has extensive experience with a wide range of energy-related issues, including regulation under the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, Natural Gas Act, the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978, and FERC’s regulations implementing those statutory regimes. Valerie advises natural gas shippers on pipeline rate and tariff issues, and has advised natural gas pipelines on their rate cases, Standards of Conduct, FERC’s capacity release rules, and other regulatory issues.
Valerie has deep knowledge of Independent System Operator and Regional Transmission Organization (ISO/RTO) tariffs and operations, and regularly assists clients in ISO/RTO stakeholder proceedings as they navigate electric transmission and interconnection issues.
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J.D., University of California College of the Law, San Francisco; B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.