Our Areas of Expertise
Cybersecurity
Our utility clients are working around the clock to defend their systems and assets from persistent and dynamic cyber intrusions, and we work to inform policymakers of existing federal requirements and to prevent potentially conflicting mandates.
Hydropower
Clean, renewable, and low-cost hydropower is a hallmark of public power utilities, and our clients benefit from the preference principles that entitle them to hydropower from federal projects marketed by Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs). We represent several preference customer groups and individual clients across the country, making us a key player in PMA debates.
Transmission
Our staff has also been involved in debates related to Order 1000, transmission incentives, and PMA wheeling authority, as well as individual projects seeking to use federal eminent domain.
Electric Vehicles
Utility investment in transportation electrification is one of many initiatives pursuant to its commitment to environmental stewardship – but this one is also a strategic business move. We are prepared to defend the regulatory framework that supports it.
Environmental Regulation
Our nation’s environmental statutes are 40 years old, but debates over environmental policy rage red hot today – Meguire Whitney is intimately familiar with the history and deeply involved with shaping the future.
Tax-Exempt Financing
We specialize in issues important to municipal and cooperative utilities, and none is more universal than access to financial capital, whether that be in the form of tax-exempt municipal bonds or Rural Utility Service funds, including protection of cooperatives’ tax-exempt status under the 85/15 rule . Our staff also has expertise in implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act and its impacts on utility finance.
Renewable Energy
Cleaner, renewable energy is the future customers want; we focus on cultivating policy support for the transition.
Organized Markets
Few understand the complexity surrounding RTO market controversies, especially the consumer-owned perspective. Meguire Whitney is a recognized exception. In the East, Meguire Whitney understands the challenges of the markets that have adopted mandatory capacity markets and the complexity of initiatives designed to compensate baseload resources, as well as the tension with state public policies. In the West, Meguire Whitney staff are intimately familiar with the politics and the policy complexities of developments such as the EIM and CAISO regionalization.