Experience

Jennifer Martin is a partner of the firm practicing in the Energy Group and Renewable Energy Initiative. Her practice focuses primarily on representing renewable energy developers in the negotiation of major power purchase agreements on both the "buy" and the "sell" sides. This experience includes work on many major wind power purchase agreements. Jennifer also advises developers in navigating the regulatory timelines and obligations for securing interconnection agreements and transmission agreements, and negotiating interconnection agreements in organized markets such as PJM, the Midwest ISO and SPP, and with individual utilities. Jennifer also represents renewable energy clients on a variety of energy-related regulatory matters before state and federal agencies. She has experience before state public utility commissions in the Western United States and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission representing both utility and independent power producer interests.

She has represented renewable energy clients in negotiations with a range of counterparties, including the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), Northern States Power (NSP), Salt River Project (SRP) and Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO).

Judicial Clerk, Minnesota Supreme Court, 1999-2000; Senior Note and Comment Editor, Journal of Gender Race and Justice at University of Iowa College of Law, 1998-1999; summer law clerk, Stoel Rives, 1998; research assistant, Professor David Baldus, University of Iowa College of Law, 1997-1999; clerk, Circuit Court of Cook County, 1993.

Representative Work

Representative Regulatory Work

• Representation of energy clients including wind and solar developers in administrative litigation and rulemaking matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), including Section 205 applications and approvals for FERC-jurisdictional sales, QF and exempt wholesale generator issues, market rate authority, Section 203 transfer of jurisdictional assets; investigations into compliance, and other issues.
• Representation of energy efficiency clients on state regulatory and renewable energy credit (REC) issues and drafting customer participation agreement.

Representative Transactional Work

• Represented wind developer in negotiation of 300 MW long term power purchase agreement for sale of output and environmental attributes from Illinois wind facility.
• Represented wind developer in negotiation of 50 MW long term power purchase agreement, for sale of output and environmental attributes from Minnesota wind facility.
• Represented wind developer in negotiation of 63 MW long term power purchase agreement for sale of output and environmental attributes from Arizona wind facility.
• Represented wind developer in negotiation of 50 MW long term power purchase agreement for sale of output and environmental attributes from Iowa wind facility.
• Represented wind developer in negotiation of 30 MW long term power purchase agreement for sale of output and environmental attributes from Iowa wind facility.
• Represented wind developer in negotiation of 50 MW long term power purchase agreement for sale of output and environmental attributes from Oregon wind facility.
• Represented wind developer in negotiation of 90 MW long term power purchase agreement for sale of output and environmental attributes from Oregon wind facility.
• Represented renewable energy developer in negotiation of back to back power purchase and sales agreements from a 55 MW biomass facility in Washington state.

Professional Honors & Activities

• Member, Energy, Telecom and Utility Law Section, Oregon State Bar
• Member, Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law Section, American Bar Association
• Member, Energy Bar Association
• Member, Multnomah Bar Association
• Member, Women of Wind Energy

Presentations

• "Biomass to Energy Projects: Key Issues to Consider in Power Purchase and Feedstock Agreements," 2010 International Biomass Conference and Expo, Minneapolis, MN, May 6, 2010
• "Geothermal Power Purchase Agreements," Geothermal Finance & Investment Summit, Mar. 8, 2010
• "Understanding and Working with Revenue Streams: Key Issues in Negotiating and Drafting Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)," 2010 Wind, Solar and Renewables Institute, University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas, Feb. 2-4, 2010
• Panelist, "Impact of State RPS's and the Prospect of a Federal RPS," Infocase Webinar, Jan. 27, 2010
• "Biomass Power Purchase Agreements: Issues and Strategies," BBI Pacific West Biomass Conference & Expo, Jan. 12, 2010
• "Law of Renewable Energy: Regulatory and Transmission Issues for Renewable Energy Projects," Electric Utility Consultants, Inc. Webinar, Jun. 15, 2009
• "Law of Renewable Energy: Power Purchase Agreements for Renewable Energy Projects," Electric Utility Consultants, Inc. Webinar, May 18, 2009
• Poster Presentation "FERC's Implementation of EPAct of 2005: Impacts on the Wind Energy Business," WINDPOWER 2007 Conference & Exhibition, Los Angeles, California, Jun. 2007

Publications

• "Delivering the Goods: Regulatory and Transmission-Related Issues," (coauthor) in Chapter 7 of Lava Law, Stoel Rives 
• "Power Purchase Agreements: Utility-Scale Projects," (coauthor) in Chapter 3 of Lex Helius: The Law of Solar Energy, Stoel Rives 
• "Regulatory and Transmission-Related Issues," (coauthor) in Chapter 5 of Lex Helius: The Law of Solar Energy, Stoel Rives 
• "Regulatory and Transmission-Related Issues," (coauthor) in Chapter 6 of The Law Of Ocean and Tidal Energy, Stoel Rives 
• "Power Purchase Agreements and Environmental Attributes," (coauthor) in Chapter 6 of The Law of Wind, Stoel Rives 
• "Regulatory and Transmission-Related Issues," (coauthor) in Chapter 13 of The Law of Wind, Stoel Rives
• "Relocating the Wind: New Strategies for Moving Wind Generation from High-Wind Areas to High-Load Areas," North American Clean Energy, August 2008

Education

• University of Iowa College of Law, J.D., 1999
• University of Notre Dame, B.A. English and gender studies, 1995
  St. Patrick's College, University of Notre Dame foreign study program, 1992-1993

Admissions

• Oregon
• Utah
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
• United States Supreme Court

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