F. Alvin Taylor, Jr. | McCarter & English, LLP

F. Alvin Taylor represents a broad range of energy utilities and end-users of electric energy in transactional, regulatory, and litigation matters, including proceedings and rulemakings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and various state utility commissions. His clients range from rural electric cooperatives, generation and transmission utilities, and joint action agencies to large industrial consumers, power marketers, and financial institutions.

His transactional experience includes negotiating power purchase, interconnection, and transmission agreements and obtaining required regulatory approvals from FERC and other commissions. He also provides due diligence reviews for clients acquiring generating facilities and vertically integrated and transmission-only utilities.

Al negotiates and litigates matters involving wholesale and retail electric rates and other tariff issues. He also counsels clients on regional transmission organizations and on reliability issues, including registration and compliance matters.

Representative Matters

Served as energy counsel and commodity swap counsel to the Southeast Energy Authority (SEA), an energy joint action agency based in Alabama, in a transaction that issued $675 million of tax-exempt bonds to purchase a 30-year supply of natural gas to be sold at a substantial discount to market prices to six project participants—Salt River Project (which will use the natural gas to generate electricity for retail customers in Phoenix, Arizona); the City of Tallahassee, Florida (which will use the natural gas to generate electricity for retail customers in the Tallahassee area); The Southeast Alabama Gas District; Huntsville Utilities of the City of Huntsville, Alabama; Decatur Utilities of the City of Decatur, Alabama; and the Municipal Energy Acquisition Corporate, a Tennessee joint action agency, for sale to the City of Lebanon, Tennessee. Salt River Project and the City of Tallahassee have the option to switch their purchases from natural gas to electricity at points in the future.

Assisted an electric cooperative with the negotiation of the purchase of a transmission line and in the subsequent state and federal regulatory proceedings.

Helped an electric cooperative draft and negotiate multiple Edison Electric Institute Master Agreements and confirmations to facilitate block power purchases.

Assisted an electric cooperative in reviewing and challenging utility transmission formula rates.

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Representative Matters

Southeast Energy Authority—$675 million prepay transaction

Electric cooperative—Transmission line acquisition

Rural electric cooperative—Power purchase agreements

Electric cooperative—Rate challenges