Vivian Chum

Electric Energy Regulation

Natural Gas Pipelines

Vivian expertly navigated issues in energy policy and ratemaking, enforcement and compliance, antitrust and market power analyses, and infrastructure development. She successfully settled and litigated a variety of electric, oil, and gas ratemaking and enforcement matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission). She is well-versed in emerging issues in electric transmission and interconnection policy.

Prior to joining us, Vivian held numerous leadership roles during her long tenure at FERC. She served as Special Counsel to the Legal Director of FERC’s Office of Administrative Litigation, where she advised senior leadership on agency-wide initiatives and led the settlement and litigation of complex matters before administrative law judges and the Commission. As an innovative consensus-builder, she settled multi-million to multi-billion-dollar matters addressing highly complex issues of first impression. Vivian also served as a policy advisor to a FERC Commissioner, covering the proposed rulemakings on electric transmission planning, cost allocation, and transmission interconnection, as well as wholesale electric market issues, and stakeholder, congressional, and public engagements. Additionally, her work as an enforcement attorney for FERC’s Office of Enforcement, where she handled and led investigations and litigation, culminated in the largest enforcement settlement in FERC history.