Experience

Teresa Hill is a partner in the firm's Resources, Development and Environment practice group and Renewable Energy group. Teresa practices in the areas of renewable energy, land use, natural resources and environmental law. Her practice encompasses a wide range of energy, development and environmental work, including the representation of renewable energy developers in drafting and negotiating power purchase agreements, obtaining environmental and land use approvals, conducting due diligence reviews, representing clients before administrative agencies, and assisting clients with environmental compliance and permitting.

Prior to joining Stoel Rives, Teresa served as judicial clerk to the Honorable Chief Justice Linda Copple Trout of the Idaho Supreme Court (2000-01), She was also a summer associate at Stoel Rives LLP (1999), and Ray, Quinney & Nebeker (1998).

Representative Work

Teresa has represented renewable energy clients in negotiations with a range of entities, including Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Puget Sound Energy, Inc., Snohomish PUD (SnoPUD), Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP), Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCO), and Wisconsin Public Power Inc. Specific power agreements include:

• Representing a solar power developer in negotiation of power purchase agreement for sale of output from 20 MW photovoltaic facility.
• Represented wind developer in negotiation of two long term power purchase agreements, 50 MW each, for sale of output and environmental attributes from Oregon wind facility.
• Represented wind developer in negotiation of 63 MW long term power purchase agreement for sale of output and environmental attributes from Arizona's first commercial 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 South Dakota wind facility.
• Represented wind developer in negotiation of long-term power purchase agreement for sale of output and environmental attributes from 100MW Oregon wind facility.

Professional Honors & Activities

• Selected as one of "America's Leading Lawyers for Business" (Idaho) by Chambers USA (currently: Natural Resources & Environment), 2010
• Treasurer, Idaho Fourth District Bar Association, 2009-2010
• Member, Women of Wind Energy, 2008-2010
• 2008 Mountain States Super Lawyers® "Rising Star"
• Co-chair, 2006-2007, secretary, 2005-2006, Environmental and Natural Resources Section, Idaho State Bar
• Chair, 2004-2006, member, 2001-2010, Law Day Committee Fourth District Bar Association
• Member, Urban Land Institute, 2006-2010
• Member, Local Government Committee, Boise City Chamber of Commerce, 2006-2010
• Stephen Pierre Traynor Outstanding Legal Writing Award, 2000
• William H. Leary Scholar, 1997-2000

Presentations

• Panelist, "Impact of State RPS's and the Prospect of a Federal RPS," Infocast Webinar, Jan. 27, 2010
• Panelist/Presenter, "PPAs for Renewable Energy Projects" EUCI Law of Renewable Energy Webinar, May 18, 2009
• Panelist/Presenter, "Wind 101: A Primer on Wind Energy and Development," 2009 Wind Energy Conference, University of Texas, Jan. 20, 2009
• Panelist/Presenter, "Small and Community Wind: Business Models and Practices," 2009 Wind Energy Conference, University of Texas, Jan. 20, 2009
• Panelist/Presenter, "Distributed and Small Scale Wind," 2009 Wind Energy Conference, University of Texas, Jan. 20, 2009
• "Wind, Solar & Renewable Energy Workshop," 2008 Energy and Green Building Conference, Boise, ID, Oct. 23, 2008

Civic Activities

• Volunteer coach – YMCA
• Organizer 6.1 (Pro Bono) Challenge

Publications

• "Real Property, Real Destruction, Real People—Temping as a Mississippi Lawyer," The Advocate, Mar. 2006
• "Reporting Refrigerant Leaks," Idaho Business Review, May 16, 2005
• "Environmental Laws from the 2003 Legislature," Idaho Business Review, Jun. 16, 2003
• Coauthor, "Clean Air Act Enforcement: A Focus on Overfiling," Air Quality Regulation for the Natural Resources Industry, Mineral Law Series, Vol. 2000, No. 1, Paper 15, 2000
• Note, "Fragmenting the Copyleft Movement: The Public Will Not Prevail," 199 Utah Law Review 797, 1999

Education

• University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, J.D., 2000
  Order of the Coif
  Executive editor, Utah Law Review
  Environmental and Natural Resource Certificate
• University of Utah, M.S. sociology, 1997
• Boise State University, B.A. sociology, 1994

Admissions

• Idaho
• U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

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