Michael is focused on helping clients navigate structural changes in the energy industry.
Michael is an energy law practitioner in Husch Blackwell’s Energy and Natural Resources group. He focuses on matters of market design and regulation, working with a wide variety of clients including generation developers, battery companies, Distributed Energy Resource (DER) companies, grid enhancing technology companies, energy customers, retail electric providers, policy advocates, project financiers and investors. Michael advises clients on issues including:
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) transmission planning and cost allocation, interconnection, and DER integration
- Wholesale market design and DER integration
- Utility interconnection process requirements and reforms
- Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) market registration and participation
- Transmission access, cost allocation and planning issues
- Utility reporting
Michael also works on energy project finance, mergers and acquisitions, and advises on regulatory aspects of infrastructure development, financing and transfers. He also prepares and advises on offtake agreements, including power purchase agreements in organized and traditional markets, as well as community solar agreements.
Outside of the office, Michael serves as an adjunct professor at Indiana University McKinney School of Law, teaching on emerging issues in energy law.