McLane has been providing legal services to energy clients for more than 80 years. Our attorneys have a wide range of skills and experience relevant to the energy industry. We address our clients’ needs using an inter-disciplinary approach across a spectrum of areas including utility regulation, energy facility siting and permitting, corporate and transactional work, project finance, contracting and construction, environmental compliance, and administrative litigation before various State agencies.

McLane has extensive experience representing industry participants, particularly electric utilities and generators. Our work has included base rate cases and all other aspects of the utility regulatory process; power purchase agreements; acquisition of generation facilities; transmission and supply matters; electric industry deregulation and related competitive supply issues; municipalization of retail electric assets; and appellate matters.

We have represented regulated local gas distribution utilities, merchant generators and interstate natural gas pipeline companies. Matters that we have worked on include the full scope of gas utility regulatory proceedings, such as base rate cases, cost of gas proceedings, financings; integrated resource planning and energy efficiency program proceedings; mergers and acquisitions; gas industry restructuring; and siting and eminent domain proceedings for interstate pipelines.

We represent New Hampshire’s only district steam utility, for which we have handled base rate proceedings, cost of energy proceedings, special contract matters, financings, and other matters. We have also represented the utility and an unregulated affiliate with regard to financing and contracting issues relating to development of a wood-fired electric generation project designed to also provide the utility’s steam requirements.

McLane is a leading New England law firm in matters pertaining to the siting of energy facilities and infrastructure, including assisting clients in proceedings before the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee (SEC), as well as local permitting and land use approvals for smaller projects. Representative projects includes:

National Grid; Public Service Company of New Hampshire, Northeast Utilities, Cate Street Capital, Inc.; Trustees of Dartmouth College; Great Bay Power Corporation and its holding company, BayCorp Holdings, Ltd.; Ashland Electric Department; Pennichuck Corporation; Hanover Water Works; Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp.; Concord Steam Corporation; and AES Corporation.

Barry Needleman was featured in “Siting for Success – Using a Trial Based Approach to Improve a Project’s Chances Before State Siting Boards” featured in Public Utilities Fortnightly in February, 2013.