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Moderator:

Edward D. Einowski, Partner, STOEL RIVES LLP

Ed Einowski is a partner at Stoel Rives LLP where he specializes in project finance and development, representing renewable energy developers (including biomass, wind, solar and geothermal), primary investors, tax-equity investors, investor-owned utilities and their unregulated subsidiaries, biofuel producers, investment banking firms, commercial banks and other financial institutions. He has handled power purchase agreement negotiations, project financings, sales and acquisitions of energy projects and related work throughout the United States, from Maine to California. Since 2009, he has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for his work in finance. His work in the renewable energy area covers the entire range of renewable projects – wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and biofuels.

Panelists:

Teresa Hill, Partner, STOEL RIVES LLP

Teresa Hill is a partner practicing in the renewable energy area in Stoel Rives LLP Boise office. Her practice encompasses a wide range of energy, development and environmental work, with a special emphasis on representation of renewable energy developers in drafting and negotiating major power purchase agreements (PPAs), energy project development agreements and related documentation. Teresa also advises renewable energy clients in obtaining land use and environmental approvals, environmental compliance and permitting, and enforcement defense.

William H. Holmes, Partner, STOEL RIVES LLP

William H. Holmes is a partner of Stoel Rives LLP, and Chair of the firm’s Renewable Energy Initiative. He concentrates his practice in the area of energy law, with a special emphasis on wind, geothermal, biomass, hydroelectric, hydrokinetic, tidal and ocean, and other forms of renewable energy. He also has extensive experience with real estate law, water law, and general corporate transactions. He has been selected to be included in the 2007 through 2010 editions of The Best Lawyers in America in Energy Law and Environmental Law. Mr. Holmes is an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon Law School, where he has taught one of the first renewable energy law courses in the nation since 2007.

Jennifer H. Martin, Partner, STOEL RIVES LLP

Jennifer H. Martin is a partner practicing in the Energy Group in Stoel Rives’ Portland office. Her practice focuses primarily on representing renewable energy developers on a variety of energy-related matters. She has extensive experience advising renewable energy developers in drafting and negotiating power purchase and renewable energy credit (REC) agreements, interconnection agreements and transmission service arrangements. She also has experience before state public utility commissions in the Western United States and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, representing both utility and independent power producer interests, including queue reform proceedings, Section 205 applications and approvals for FERC-jurisdictional sales, QF and exempt wholesale generator issues, market rate authority, Section 203 transfer of jurisdictional assets, investigations into compliance, and other issues.

Marcus Wood, Partner, STOEL RIVES LLP

Marcus Wood is a partner in the Stoel Rives' Portland office. He heads the Energy Group and focuses his practice on energy provider and energy facility developer clients. Marcus has extensive experience representing independent power company owners of conventional and renewable energy projects, as well as regulated electric, natural gas and water utilities. He practices before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and before utility regulatory bodies in the states of Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho and Wyoming, in investigations and in rate proceedings, and has been a leader in efforts to create Regional Transmission Organizations. Marcus also has represented numerous parties in the acquisition and financing of interests in, and in the disposition of, the output from cogeneration and other conventional electric generation facilities, as well as wind-powered and geothermal energy resources. He regularly assists clients on the structuring of energy projects and the operating contracts, power sales contracts and transmission contracts required for such projects. He also has extensive experience advising sellers, purchasers and exchangers of electric capacity and energy, as well as advising both transmission service providers and purchasers of electric transmission and related services.