Overview
About us:
Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy transition solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired over 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through LS Power Grid, the Firm has built and operates approximately 780 miles of high-voltage transmission with another 350+ miles and multiple grid infrastructure projects currently under construction or development. Across its efforts, LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are accelerating the energy transition, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised $65 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.
Our Purpose, Mission, & Values:
Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world
Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem
Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership
Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset. We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.
Benefits
We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.
About the Role
This is an opportunity for a motivated attorney to join the world-class team of professionals responsible for developing, owning and operating LS Power’s innovative and rapidly growing portfolio of electric transmission and resource infrastructure. As the Associate Regulatory Counsel, you will have the responsibility of assisting in regulatory-related legal matters for LS Power’s expanding regulated electric transmission utility businesses that operate in multiple regions across the country.
You will work closely with senior attorneys and utility personnel and make meaningful contributions in a wide range of areas. You will be a valued and trusted resource and will guide decision-makers. The successful candidate will have both a meaningful role and an opportunity to develop professionally with the support of collaborative and experienced peers.
Responsibilities
What you will do:
- Support LS Power’s utilities in various regulatory-related matters arising in the course of owning and operating electric transmission utility assets.
- Support colleagues in legal, compliance, and business units regarding federal and state regulatory issues associated with new transmission development projects and new business opportunities across the country, including through various competitive processes.
- Identify, research, and analyze legal issues, and present clear, well-reasoned legal recommendations reflecting a thorough appreciation of the business objectives and constraints.
- Interpret and advise on matters arising from regional transmission owner agreements, applicable transmission owner tariffs, ISO/RTO tariffs, and applicable laws, regulations, orders and procedures.
- Monitor applicable regulatory developments, assess potential impacts to business, advocate for reforms based on business interests, and support implementation of new requirements and guidance.
- Prepare various pleadings for filing at federal and state regulatory agencies and help represent LS Power transmission utilities in those proceedings, including various types of rate cases, transactional approvals, rate schedules and tariffs, regulatory compliance matters, rulemakings, transmission incentives, and RTO/ISO-related proceedings.
- Support the processing of transmission interconnection requests and associated activities, including reviewing, drafting, and negotiating related contracts and other documentation.
- Support in matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), state regulatory commissions, and regional transmission operators, including ratemaking, comment drafting, administrative proceedings, and compliance matters related to LS Power’s regulated transmission utility businesses.
- Support colleagues on compliance with North American Electric Regulatory Corporation (NERC) and NERC Regional Entities’ electric reliability requirements.
- Provide advice to ensure actions taken by the company are consistent with applicable laws and regulations. Collaborate with internal compliance department and external parties as needed.
- Communicate with and manage outside counsel and consultants as needed to cost-efficiently achieve objectives.
- Assist with managing various proceedings pending before regulatory agencies, negotiating settlement terms in administrative cases, and litigating cases before administrative law judges or other tribunals.
- Collaborate and build strong relationships with cross-functional teams, including finance, tax, regulatory, accounting, project development, compliance, and asset/business management.
- Perform other responsibilities as identified from time to time.
Qualifications
We want you on our team because you…
- Hold a J.D. degree and have a strong academic record.
- Are licensed to practice law in at least one state or the District of Columbia.
- Have at least 2-5 years of relevant electric regulatory experience.
- Can identify, prioritize and resolve issues quickly, independently, and occasionally under pressure.
- Have excellent work ethic, communication skills, drafting skills, and judgment.
- Have the ability to deliver a high level of client service and perform excellent work.
- Are willing to develop skills in new areas, and flexibility to assist the legal team in its mission as needs arise.
- Have creativity and the ability to apply the law on novel issues to support the business objectives.
- Have a willingness to occasionally travel to LS Power offices/sites and federal and regulatory agencies having jurisdiction over LS Power’s utility businesses.
