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The Energy & Climate Solutions Group at Wilson Sonsini is looking for a junior energy regulatory lawyer for its Washington, D.C. office with 2-4 years of experience on FERC and other energy regulatory matters related to independent power companies developing, transacting, and financing clean energy electric generation projects and grid-edge technologies.
We are the most focused, innovative clean energy project development and finance practice in the United States. We hire lawyers who share our mission to address climate change through applying a broad skill set, independent thought, and deal-making creativity to assist clients developing technologies, business models, and projects to decarbonize and increase efficiencies in the electricity, fuels, transportation, industrial, water, agricultural, and technology sectors.
Candidates should understand, and have experience related to, aspects of Federal Power Act relevant to independent power producers, such as RTO/ISO market design, Section 203 applications, Section 205 rate filings, Section 206 complaints, energy market compliance and reporting, PURPA, and FERC’s regulation of project interconnection, transmission, and shared facilities matters. Candidates must have excellent writing and research skills and the ability to apply those skills to craft persuasive FERC pleadings. Familiarity with RTO/ISO stakeholder processes, ERCOT Nodal Protocols, and state-level regulation and advocacy would be valued, but is not required.
We are pro-competition and committed to innovation; by choice, we avoid mandates for vertically-integrated utilities and fossil fuel project developers that do not want to help lead the energy transition.
Superior academic credentials, FERC and/or law firm experience, and excellent advocacy and interpersonal skills are required.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range of $235,000 – $310,000, based on year classification.
- Discretionary merit bonuses may also be awarded.
- Our benefits include:
- Monthly wellness reimbursements
- 24/7 emotional and behavioral health support and virtual counseling
- Healthcare coverage for you and your same- or opposite-sex spouse/domestic partner and children up to age 26
- Family-building benefits including IVF, adoption, surrogacy, and egg-freezing
- Paid parental leave
- Parenting support concierge and telemedicine
- Parents and caregivers resource group
- Career coaching for working parents
- In-home and center-based back-up childcare
- Tutoring and college coach for older children
- Health Savings Accounts with firm contribution
- Flexible spending accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Pretax commuter and parking benefits
- Basic and supplemental life insurance
- Short and long-term disability
- Voluntary long term care insurance
- Voluntary critical illness, hospitalization, and accident insurance
- Voluntary ID theft protection
- Voluntary pet insurance
- Medicare consulting
- Firm-paid CLE, bar review fees, and bar dues
