Southeast Renewable Energy

McGuireWoods LLP

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McGuireWoods’ cross-discipline, cross-practice energy industry team brings together legal, policy, energy technology and business experience to meet the challenges our clients face. Our energy industry experience has been recognized for the depth of our bench (more than 100 interdisciplinary lawyers) and the extent of our experience. We have been serving some of our energy clients for nearly 50 years.

We advance our renewable energy clients’ interests by getting deals done, by helping clients successfully and creatively navigate the complexities and pitfalls in this dynamically evolving industry and by maximizing the value of various tax, energy, environmental rules, markets and governmental incentives available to the renewable energy industry.

Troutman Pepper

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The energy industry is a key vertical and center of excellence at Troutman Pepper. We have been recognized as a “National Top-Tier” Energy Practice for eight consecutive years and received the 2020 “Law Firm of the Year” distinction for Energy Law in U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” edition, and our renewable energy practice has won nationwide recognition in the Chambers USA and The Legal 500 guides. We provide top legal advice to independent power producers, developers, lenders, utilities, industrial and government clients in energy-related businesses in the U.S. and internationally. We have extensive transactional, financing and regulatory experience in the electric power (including renewable energy), natural gas and water industries. The firm can bring to bear top transactional and regulatory practitioners in order to maximize the value of transactions in the heavily regulated energy space.

Leyline Renewable Capital

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Leyline provides development-stage capital for promising renewable energy ventures – leveraging millions in crucial early investments to propel game-changing projects worth billions. We do this by providing pre-construction funding for essential steps such as engineering work, impact studies, secure interconnection deals, and land acquisition for solar, wind, geothermal and anaerobic digestion facilities. Tackling the challenges of these early stages is critical for the success of any renewable energy project. That’s why, in addition to flexible capital, we also offer guidance based on decades of combined development experience, and generate creative solutions that account for the unique circumstances of each project.

Norton Rose Fulbright

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Chadbourne & Parke and Norton Rose Fulbright merged on June 30 to make a combined firm with 4,000 lawyers in 59 offices in 33 countries, including 400 working in the power sector of whom close to a 100 are in the United States.  The prestigious Chambers directory has consistently ranked the Chadbourne project finance team at the top of the US renewable energy market based on year-round interviewing of corporate law departments and peers at other firms.  The group did $53.5 billion in financings in the last two years.   Approximately 60% of the work of the group in each of the last 11 years has been in renewable energy. The group has worked on projects in more than 80 countries.

Origis Services

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Origis Services delivers the promise of clean energy with operations and maintenance (O&M) and asset management services for solar and energy storage across North America. The team manages a diverse utility scale and distributed generation portfolio with experienced professionals backed by a state-of-the-art NERC CIP Certified Remote Operations Center (ROC) located at its headquarters in Austin, Texas. Visit us at: www.OrigisServices.com

Parker Poe

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Parker Poe’s Energy Team guides clients through project development and finance, regulatory compliance and investigations, and joint ventures, mergers, and acquisitions. We are experienced before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), and state utility commissions in the Southeast.

Our clients include independent power producers, renewable energy developers (solar PV, solar thermal, wind, fuel cell, biomass, biogas, and geothermal), commercial and industrial energy consumers, universities, financial institutions, tax equity investors, engineering, procurement, and construction companies, electric and gas utilities, and electric cooperatives. We approach each project like our clients do: collaborating and assembling the skill sets needed to accomplish the task effectively and efficiently.

Zorya Energy Advisors

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Zorya Energy Advisors guides institutional and strategic investors, developers, regional
distributed energy companies, and commercial & industrial building owners who want to
move into new markets and strategic spaces. Zorya Energy Advisors will find you the
project, portfolio, partner, or investor that best aligns all stakeholders' interests and
guide you through the process to optimize the benefits of M&A, tax equity, debt and
restructuring transactions.

United Community Bank

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United Community Bank provides a full range of banking, wealth management and mortgage services for relationship-oriented consumers and business owners. United has $18.9 billion in assets and 162 offices in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee along with a national SBA lending franchise and a national equipment lending subsidiary. Known as “The Bank That SERVICE Built,” United has been recognized nationally for delivering award-winning service. In 2021, J.D. Power ranked United highest in customer satisfaction with retail banking in the Southeast, marking seven out of the last eight years United earned the coveted award. United was also named one of the “Best Banks to Work For” by American Banker in 2020 for the fourth year in a row based on employee satisfaction. Forbes recognized United on its 2021 list of the 100 Best Banks in America for the eighth consecutive year. Additional information about United can be found at www.ucbi.com.

Balch & Bingham

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Balch & Bingham represents electric utilities, independent power producers and investment funds that focus on a wide-variety of energy transactions and infrastructure development, where renewable energy is playing an increasingly vital role. The firm’s practice extends to each of the Regional Transmission Organization regions of the U.S., from New York to California. Our practice also covers the Southeast and Northwest regions.

Balch is frequently engaged by significant energy participants as counsel in all phases of the development and operation of renewable generation and battery storage projects, including EPC contracts, tax strategies, offtake agreements, FERC approvals, RTO requirements, mergers and acquisitions, interconnection, state regulatory approvals and environmental matters.

With a nearly 100-year legacy of service to the electric industry, Balch includes a team of 200+ attorneys throughout the Southeast, Texas and Washington, D.C., who remain committed to helping the next generation of industry participants prepare for and build a sustainable future.

SolAmerica Energy, LLC

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SolAmerica Energy is a leading provider of turnkey solar energy and energy storage solutions, based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in the development and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of ground-mount, rooftop, and parking canopy solar systems designed to meet the distributed generation needs of utilities and large commercial and industrial facilities. SolAmerica relies on best-in-class materials, operational excellence, on-time execution, and highly competitive pricing. Since its founding in 2009, SolAmerica has developed or constructed hundreds of megawatts of solar projects in 11 states and over 100 counties.

Empower Energies

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Empower Energies, Inc., headquartered in Frederick, Maryland, is a clean energy project solutions provider focused on applying the right mixTM of combined heat and power (CHP), PV solar, and energy optimization solutions – with financing – to meet the profitability, resiliency and sustainability objectives of hospitals, universities, municipalities, and schools, as well as multi-facility commercial and industrial organizations.

Kentucky Conservation Committee

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NC Sustainable Energy Association

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The NC Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA) is​ a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization of individuals, businesses, government, and nonprofits interested in North Carolina's sustainable energy future. Our mission is to drive policy and market development to create clean energy jobs, economic opportunities and affordable energy that benefits all of North Carolina.

Southeastern Wind Coalition

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Southern Renewable Energy Association

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TenneSEIA

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Virginia Renewable Energy Alliance (VA-REA)

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RTO Insider

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RTO Insider™ is your eyes and ears on the organized electric markets, putting you “inside the room” at PJM Interconnection, MISO, NYISO, ISO-NE and SPP. We provide independent, objective coverage and analysis of the wholesale electric industry’s markets and policymaking, saving you time and ensuring you don’t miss the issues most important to your interests.

Features include:

• Coverage of key RTO/ISO committee, subcommittee and task force meetings. We’ll be there when you can’t.
• Coverage of news events impacting the industry throughout the 35 states managed by the RTOs/ISOs.
• Coverage of state and federal regulatory (FERC, EPA) & legislative news affecting RTO/ISO stakeholders.
• Issue Briefs: Concise summaries of major issues (e.g., Order 1000, EPA’s 111(d) rule).

What RTO Insider isn’t: We are not advocates or representatives. You can trust that our coverage will not be slanted to the interests of any member or membership sector.

What RTO Insider is: A source for both the big picture (e.g. analyses of major FERC rulings and RTO stakeholder developments) and the details (why is Manual 28 being changed and what does that mean to me?)