Jeremy Weinstein has for more than thirty years represented major energy companies in renewable resource procurement and energy and environmental commodity trading and derivatives. Jeremy Weinstein has broad and deep expertise in energy trading, financial and commodity derivatives, Dodd-Frank Act compliance, renewable resources, California's AB32 cap-and-trade regime, domestic and international climate change offset trading, corporate and commercial finance, secured lending, securities, bankruptcy, and investment fund management.
Mr. Weinstein is a member of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Contracts Drafting Committee, and chaired the subcommittees that drafted the EEI RECs Annex and the EEI California AB32 Carbon allowance trading Annex. Jeremy Weinstein also served on the committees that drafted the EEI/ISDA Power Annex, among other standard industry contracts. He co-chaired the committee that drafted the AB32 Exhibit C-SS specified source exhibit and the WSPP CAISO MRTU Amendment.
Jeremy Weinstein received the Distinguished Service in Environmental Markets Award from the Environmental Markets Association for spearheading the drafting of a standard form REC master trading agreement documentation in association with the American Bar Association and the American Council on Renewable Energy. His is active in championing the protection of RECs as property and the integrity of RECs markets before regulators. ( Right: ArticEMA Chairperson, Gary Payne, awarding Jeremy Weinstein with the Distinguished Service in Environmental Markets Award.)
Contract Techniques for Renewable Resource Power Purchase Agreement Off-Takers, chapter in Kramer & Fusaro, Energy and Environmental Project Finance Law and Taxation: New Investment Techniques (Oxford University Press, 2010);
Contract Force Majeure under New York Law, chapter in Kramer & Fusaro, Energy and Environmental Project Finance Law and Taxation: New Investment Techniques (Oxford University Press, 2010);
Practical Considerations When Trading Electricity on Standardized Industry Forms, chapter in Kramer and Fusaro, Energy and Environmental Trading: US Law and Taxation (2008);
Energy Trading with Hedge Funds, Kramer and Fusaro, Energy and Environmental Trading: US Law and Taxation (2008) and Proceedings of the 58th Annual Institute on Oil and Gas Law, p.191 (2007); and
Standardizing Renewable Energy Certificates Contracting, Environmental Finance, May 2005 (with Dan Chartier).
Mr. Weinstein's more than one hundred educational presentations, webinars, and other speaking engagements to national industry groups which includes:
An Introduction to Renewable Energy Certificates and Their Trading and Documentation, IECA, March 20, 2017;
Capacity Developments & Best Practices, EEI Master Agreement Training Webinar Series, EEI, July 28, 2016;
Green Claims of Corporate Renewable Energy Buyers, Renewable Energy Strategies for Commercial & Industrial End-Users Draft Agenda, Infocast, Oct. 20, 2015;
California Cap-and-Trade and Western Energy Markets, Law Seminars International, May 9, 2013;
Credit, Contracts and Natural Disasters: Not Necessarily in That Order, International Energy Credit Association, March 17, 2013;
Market Oversight & Operation: Carbon Market Growing Pains, International Emissions Trading Association, Carbon Forum North America, Oct. 1, 2012; and
Financial Reforms and Regulation of REC Markets, Renewable Energy Markets 2011, Nov. 15, 2011.
AWARDS
Jeremy Weinstein has been rated AV, the highest available rating, by Martindale-Hubble, every year since 1997.
EDUCATION
Jeremy Weinstein holds three law degrees: a J.D. from the University of California, and a B.A. and M.A., both with honors, from Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, UK