Carrie Tournillon

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Carrie Tournillon practices at the intersection of utilities regulation and energy law, including oil and gas and pipeline-related issues. Carrie is known and valued for providing smart solutions to businesses seeking to achieve their commercial objectives through government. Listed among Chambers’ Band 1 Louisiana Energy & Natural Resources: Utilities lawyers, Carrie currently serves as Chair of the Public Utilities Section of the Louisiana Bar Association.

Carrie brings decades of proven skill in achieving successful client outcomes to her Texas and Louisiana-focused administrative, public utility, and energy law practice. She ably guides clients through their most important generation projects – all with a focus on ensuring compliance with complex federal and state regulatory law.

Carrie represents industrial manufacturing, refining, and related energy industry constituents before the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC), Louisiana Pilotage Fee Commission (LPFC), and City Council of New Orleans. She also navigates business clients through utilities-focused regulatory matters involving the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT), the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC), the State Office of Administrative Hearings, and district courts.

Carrie also assists local distribution gas utilities, water and sewerage utilities, liquids intrastate pipeline companies, and telecommunications companies with complex regulatory matters, and has proven, time and again, her ability to resolve even the most difficult contract disputes.

Prior to joining Kean Miller, Carrie practiced in Texas, serving as a Staff Attorney for the PUCT before entering private practice with a law firm specializing in representing clients in utility regulatory matters before the PUCT and RRC. At the PUCT, she represented the commission on a wide variety of electric and telecommunication proceedings, rulemaking proceedings, and ERCOT protocol enforcement cases. Carrie also worked on the PUCT’s Emergency Management Response Team during Hurricane Ike. This direct experience working inside the commission exposed Carrie to the many facets of utilities regulation. Since entering private practice, Carrie has continued to expand her expertise across the full spectrum of regulatory considerations and effective problem-solving.

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