Ken Jaffe is a partner in the firm's Energy Group. He focuses his practice on regulatory matters affecting participants in restructured competitive energy markets, and he has extensive experience in utility mergers and asset transactions, the development and operations of regional transmission system operators, and regulatory litigation. Ken represents one of the largest, regional, independent system operators, as well as major transmitting utilities and market participants, in a variety of matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Those matters include applications for approval of innovative transmission and market structures, transmission incentive rate applications, rate proceedings and disputes arising under power purchase, interconnection, and transmission agreements. He established leading regulatory and appellate precedents on the recovery of utilities' investments in prematurely retired nuclear generating plants, as well as the associated decommissioning costs, prudence issues, jurisdictional issues and regional market issues.
Ken has been featured as one of the leading energy lawyers in Washington in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and The Best Lawyers in America. Best Lawyers named him “2012 Washington, D.C. Lawyer of the Year” in the energy area. He is a member of the Energy Bar Association and speaks regularly at the EBA’s meetings and seminars.
- Counsel to one of the largest independent transmission system operators for federal regulatory matters, including cost recovery, market structure and rate design matters.
- Successfully defended comprehensive reforms of a regional energy market before U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
- Obtained federal regulatory approvals for mergers of electricity delivery and generation companies and natural gas delivery companies involving domestic and foreign parties.
- Obtained federal regulatory approvals for generation asset sales by electric utilities.
- Obtained federal regulatory approvals for rate incentives for transmission investment.
- Litigated transmission, power sales and interconnection contract disputes before FERC, in state and federal courts and in arbitration.
- Litigated prudence of nuclear generation station decommissioning expenses and the recovery of associated costs.
- Obtained federal regulatory approvals for incentives for participation in regional transmission organizations.
- Obtained federal regulatory approvals for a for-profit, independent transmission company.
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September 18, 2012
In the Press
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September 12, 2011
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July 5, 2011
In the Press
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August 30, 2010
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June 11, 2010
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Past Events
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November 13, 2009
Seminar
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March 5, 2009
- District of Columbia Bar
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Energy Bar Association