Michael is focused on helping clients make the most of 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 electric industry regulation and market design, working with a wide variety of clients including conventional and renewable power generators, battery storage companies, grid enhancing technology companies, energy customers, retail electric providers, project financiers, and investors. Michael advises clients on issues that include:
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) transmission planning and cost allocation
- Generator interconnection process requirements and reforms
- Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) market structure and design
- Market registrations and certifications
- Power procurement and offtake agreements
- Transmission system access
- Merchant generation interconnection issues
- Utility reporting requirements
In addition, Michael works on energy mergers and acquisitions, advising clients on regulatory aspects of energy infrastructure development and asset financing and transfers. He also structures utility-scale power purchase agreements for clean power buyers and producers in organized and traditional market regions, as well as offtake agreements for on-site solar power in several U.S. states.
Outside of the office, Michael serves as an adjunct professor at Indiana University McKinney School of Law, teaching a course on emerging issues in energy law.