Avery Lajeunesse is an associate in the Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental Practice Group in the firm's San Francisco office.
Avery focuses his practice on transactional and regulatory energy matters. He represents independent generators and load-serving entities in energy transactions and administrative matters before the California Public Utilities Commission, the California Energy Commission, the California Independent System Operator, and California Air Resources Board. He advises clients in a variety of energy transactions including compliance with California's Renewable Portfolio Standard, Resource Adequacy, and Cap-and-Trade Programs. He also advises clients on interconnection matters at the California Independent System Operator.
Prior to joining Sheppard, Avery was an Associate Attorney at Ellison Schneider Harris & Donlan LLP, advising independent generators and load-serving entities in a variety of transactional and regulatory energy matters throughout the western United States.
Prior to law school, Avery was a project manager and associate designer a net-zero energy architecture firm developing several of the nations largest net-zero energy neighborhoods in the front range of Colorado.