Miguel integrates energy law, public policy, and regulatory compliance to solve complex legal and business challenges for sophisticated energy and natural resources clients.
Miguel’s experience has placed him at the nexus of business and energy, land-use, and natural resources law. He represents a variety of clients involved in the development of renewable energy projects, providing regulatory counsel, and big picture thinking that helps get projects across the finish line.
Drawing from a dual background in private practice and as in-house counsel to a Fortune 300 energy company, Miguel is deeply conversant with industry trends and approaches each project with fresh eyes and an appetite for innovation. He has routinely served as lead counsel before various administrative bodies in Texas and New Mexico, including the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the State Office of Administrative Hearings. Miguel has led complicated regulatory filings from inception to completion, including fixed fuel factors, fuel reconciliations and refunds, distribution cost recovery factors, transmission cost recovery factors, generation cost recovery factors, smart meter deployment, and certificates of convenience and necessity for transmission projects, distribution projects, utility-scale solar projects, and backup generation projects.
Miguel is also capable of collaborating closely with business-unit teams that require lawyers who can apply cutting-edge legal counsel to highly technical subject matter. Additionally, he is a trusted adviser who can evaluate strategic planning initiatives from corporate executives and provide legal guidance and strategy to accomplish business objectives.
Parallel to his renewable energy practice, Miguel has counseled public officials and private companies in connection with cryptocurrency and energy use, including how mining operations can utilize flared natural gas produced by shale fracking to power bitcoin mining facilities.