LYLE LARSON Co- leads the firm's Climate Change & Smart Sustainability group and is a member of the firm's Energy and Litigation sections. Resident in the firm's Birmingham office, he maintains a national public utility practice focused principally on the electricity industry, energy and electricity infrastructure projects, environmental markets, regulation of commodities and derivatives markets and transactions, competitive energy market regulation and utility mergers and acquisitions. He deals with litigation, contractual, regulatory, compliance and legislative matters of concern to public utility companies, their customers and competitors -- at both the federal and state levels.
Lyle regularly appears before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, various state electric utility regulatory commissions, state and federal trial courts, state and federal appellate courts, and the United States Congress in various advocacy settings on behalf of clients and client interests and relating to energy issues and problems. In addition, he represents and advises clients with regard to FERC compliance and litigation, power transactions, renewable and clean energy technologies, emission allowance issues, and antitrust compliance.
Lyle was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and was raised in Miami, Florida. Lyle has been rated "AV" by Martindale Hubbell and has been selected repeatedly (by peer review) to be included in The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Energy Law. He also is past multiple term Chairman of the ABA's Gas and Electricity Marketing Committee, and the ABA's Carbon and Energy Trading and Finance Committee, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources. He presently is privileged to serve as the Chairman of the ABA's Energy and Natural Resources Market Regulation Committee and as Vice Chair of the ABA Section of Environment and Resource's Strategic Planning Committee.
Representative Experience
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Advise vertically integrated electric distribution utility regarding "smart grid" and advanced metering initiatives with focus on regulatory and ratemaking issues and protections.
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Multi-state public utility holding company group- development and maintenance of comprehensive FERC compliance program
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Western regional utility group- standards of conduct independent validation audit
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Wholesale power producer – defense of Federal claims and investigation regarding alleged unfair discrimination and violations of codes of conduct.
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Major regional public utility group- acquisition of upstream partnership interests in various renewable energy generation Exempt Wholesale Generators.
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Rural electric cooperative – defense of generation and transmission cooperatives against claims of unfair dealing and breach of contract under wholesale power supply tariffs.
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Vertically integrated public utilities – negotiation and development of long-term purchase power agreement, ancillary services package and administrative service arrangements with state and municipal water agencies.
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Wholesale power consumers – representation of major wholesale customers in Western power markets in connection with multi-billion dollar proceedings initiated by Federal and state authorities regarding alleged market manipulation.
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Wholesale power sellers – representation of major Western power sellers in connection with Federal refund proceedings regarding California power markets.
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Industrial users of natural gas transportation services – advise and represent large users of firm and non-firm transportation services on interstate pipelines regulated by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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Merchant power organization – represents and defends power supply and trading organization in litigation regarding breach of bilateral power sales agreement.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Chairman, ABA Market Regulation Committee, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources
- Past-Chairman (multiple terms), ABA Carbon and Energy Trading and Finance Committee, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources
- Past Chairman (multiple terms), ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, Gas and Electricity Marketing Committee
- Past Vice Chair, Federal Energy Bar Association, Judicial Review Committee
- Energy Bar Association, Renewable Energy Committee, Competition/Antitrust Committee, Committee on Compliance and Enforcement
- Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
- Birmingham Bar Association
- American Bar Association, Public Utility, Communications & Transportation Law Section (Electricity Committee); Litigation Section (Energy Litigation Committee)
- Bar of the United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 11th Circuit and D.C. Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Northern and Middle Districts of Alabama
COMMUNITY RELATIONS
- Chairman, City of Vestavia Hills Planning and Zoning Commission
NEWS
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July 07, 2011
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June 27, 2008
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PUBLICATIONS
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November/December 2010
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April 23, 2008
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March 2008
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May 2007
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Congressional Testimony, Tennessee Valley Authority Electricity Sector Restructuring - Issues of Concern to Investor-Owned Utilities.
Testimony before Subcommittee on Energy & Power
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An End-Run Around the Fourth Amendment: Why Roving Surveillance Is Unconstitutional.
American Criminal Law Review
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Speaking Engagements
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November 1, 2011
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July 13, 2011
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- Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1991
- Florida International University, B.B.A., International Business and Finance, 1987
- Chairman, Market Regulation Committee, Section on Environment, Energy and Resources, American Bar Association
- Co-Chairman, Carbon and Energy Trading and Finance Committee, American Bar Association
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2007- Present (Energy)
- Listed in Super Lawyers 2008- Present (Energy)
- Best Lawyers, Energy Lawyer of the Year (2012, Alabama)
- Top Energy Lawyer as published in Corporate Counsel
- Newcomen Society of Alabama, 2007- Present
- Listed in Business Alabama Magazine's Top Attorneys in Alabama, 2009- Present
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Deanna Frankowski
Legal Secretary
(205) 488-5513
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Lisa Ezell
Paralegal
(205) 488-5478
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