Bruce Grabow represents independent power developers and other energy companies in matters involving generation development and interconnection, load interconnection and studies, transmission service and wholesale power markets.
With more than 30 years of experience before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Bruce advises clients across the United States on securing the regulatory approvals needed to connect generation projects to the electric grid and deliver power into U.S. wholesale electricity markets.
With deep knowledge of existing and evolving market rules and regulatory policy, Bruce helps clients navigate emerging and complex federal and state commercial and infrastructure issues at the intersection of generation development, transmission needs and load interconnection driven by data center demand.
Developers rely on his guidance when projects encounter obstacles in the generation and load interconnection process. Bruce works with clients and grid operators to address disputes involving interconnection studies, project costs and transmission availability, helping projects move forward while ensuring compliance with applicable tariffs and reliability requirements.
Bruce regularly advises clients on and participates in regional transmission organization processes across the United States, including MISO, SPP, PJM, NYISO, ISO-NE and CAISO, pursues and develops tariff and policy changes and, when necessary, brings complaints and other proceedings before FERC and the courts to address practices affecting generation interconnection, transmission service and market participation.
Bruce represents clients in all matters pertaining to regulatory compliance under the statutes administered by FERC, including the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978. His work also includes supporting transactions such as power purchase and tolling agreements and capacity market participation, and project financings such as credit agreements, M&A and tax equity involving FERC-regulated generation assets.
Bruce is keenly aware of opportunities impacting generation. He pioneered reactive power compensation for wind and solar generation, processing over 120 project company submissions at FERC for revenue recovery. Bruce is now handling the appeal at the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit of FERC’s move that mandated reactive service but revoked any compensation.
