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Practice Areas

​Energy and Environmental Commodity and Derivatives Trading

Example Engagements

  • Chehalis 520MW gas-fired 2x1 power plant (representing buyer PacifiCorp on interim tolling agreement)
  • Lakeside 535MW gas-fired 2x1 power plant (representing buyer PacifiCorp on plant purchase)
  • PG&E ClimateSmart Program forestry Carbon credits (representing buyer PG&E)
  • PG&E ClimateSmart Program dairy methane Carbon credits acquisition (representing Buyer PG&E)
  • PG&E ClimateSmart Program (representing buyer PG&E on Carbon credit acquisition)
  • PG&E Climate Smart Program forestry Carbon credits acquisition (representing buyer PG&E)
  • Black Warrior Landfill Methane Carbon Reduction Tonnes (representing Carbon credit buyer CE2 Capital)

Memberships

  • Member, Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Contracts Drafting Committee
  • Co-Chair, WSPP Exhibit C-SS (AB 32 Specified Source trading confirmation)
  • Chair, Western Energy Markets Working Group, MRTU Settlement Amendment
  • Chair, drafting committee, WSPP MRTU Amendment
  • Member, Environmental Markets Association, Market Oversight Committee
  • Member, ISDA/Emissions Trading Annex Drafting Committee
  • Member, ISDA/EEI Power Annex Drafting Committee
  • Member, EEI Master Netting Agreement Drafting Committee
  • Member, EEI Collateral Annex Drafting Committee
  • Member, EMA Master Emissions Trading Agreement Drafting Committee
  • Member, WSPP Contracts Subcommittee
  • Member, Western Systems Power Pool Mediation Panel

Regulatory Comments

  • ​​​comments to the California Energy Commission on Staff Workshop on Pipeline Biomethane
  • comments of Environmental Markets Association on the CFTC NOPR on Dodd-Frank Act definition of "swap" (principal author)
  • comments of California Utilities on the "swap" definition NOPR (environmental commodities section)
  • comments of International Energy Credit Association on the "swap" definition NOPR (principal author)
  • comments of the International Energy Credit Association on swaps documentation NOPR under Dodd-Frank (principal author)
  • comments of the International Energy Credit Association to CFTC end-user exemption NOPR under Dodd-Frank (principal author)

Renewable Energy and Climate Change

Example Engagements

  • Livestock Biomethane (representing biomethane purchaser Duke Energy
  • Top of the World 200MW wind farm (representing power purchase agreement buyer PacifiCorp) 
  • Campbell Hill 99 MW wind farm (representing power purchase agreement buyer PacifiCorp)
  • Wolverine Creek 64.5MW wind farm (representing power purchase agreement off-taker PacifiCorp)
  • Southern New Hampshire University Carbon-neutral hedge (representing hedge + RECs seller PPM Energy, Inc.)
  • Renewable energy for the NY Freedom Tower (representing hedge seller + RECs PPM Energy, Inc.)
  • Utilitree Carbon Company (representing Rio Bravo Carbon sequestration Project investor PacifiCorp
  • Noel Kempff Climate Action Project (representing Carbon AIJ investor investor PacifiCorp)

Memberships

  • ​Chair, RECs Annex subcommittee of Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Contract Drafting Committee
  • Co-chair, ABA/EMA/ACORE Renewable Energy Certificates Trading Agreement Drafting Committee
  • Member, Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System Stakeholder Advisory Committee
  • Member, Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System Policy Subcommittee
  • Member, The Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas
  • Member, The Climate Registry Power Sector Technical Expert Panel
  • Founding Reporter, The Climate Registry

Regulatory Comments

  • Commenting on Cap and Trade Legislation
  • Commenting on Cap and Trade legislation
  • Commenting on Cap and Trade legislation
  • Commenting on Renewable Energy Certificate and Carbon markets
  • Commenting on Renewable Energy Certificate markets
  • ABA/EMA/ACORE Renewable Energy Certificates Trading Agreement
  • ABA/EMA/ACORE Renewable Energy Certificates Trading Agreement
  • ABA/EMA/ACORE Renewable Energy Certificates Trading Agreement
  • ABA/EMA/ACORE Renewable Energy Certificates Trading Agreement
  • BBC interview on international climate change policy, from Bolivia (minute 3:41 of 4:24)
  • comments of Environmental Markets Association on the CFTC NOPR on Dodd-Frank Act definition of "swap" (principal author)
  • comments to the California Energy Commission on Staff Workshop on Pipeline Biomethane
  • comments on the California Energy Commission Biomethane Workshop
  • comments on the Climate Action Reserve Proposed Landfill Gas Protocol 4.0
  • comments on California Air Resources Board Cap-and-Trade proposed regulations.
  • comments on the Climate Action Reserve forestry protocol Project Implementation Agreement
  • comments on the Western Climate Initiative Market Oversight White Paper
  • comments on the CFTC Notice of Intended Rulemaking on Chicago Climate Exchange Carbon Financial Instruments

Dodd-Frank Act

​Jeremy Weinstein was a principal author, with esteemed colleagues and contributors, of the following comment letters concerning rulemakings by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act and other legislation:​

Regulatory Comments

  • International Energy Credit Association 2/10/14 comments on CFTC Position Limits NOPR
  • International Energy Credit Association 2/15/13 comments on CFTC Form TO
  • International Energy Credit Association 10/15/12 comments on CFTC Bookout Information Collection Notice
  • International Energy Credit Association 10/12/12 comments on CFTC Swap Definition Final Rule
  • International Energy Credit Association 10/11/12 no-action request to CFTC on FERC-regulated products
  • International Energy Credit Association 9/21/12 petition to delay bookout confirmation requirement
  • International Energy Credit Association 7/20/12 petition for rulemaking on CFTC Swap Dealer definition
  • International Energy Credit Association 6/26/12 comments on CFTC Trade Option Exemption
  • International Energy Credit Association cost-benefit 5/23/12 comments on CFTC Swap Definition NOPR
  • International Energy Credit Association cost-benefit 5/23/12 comments on CFTC End User NOPR
  • International Energy Credit Association 4/12/12 comments on CFTC failure to apply required cost-benefit analyses
  • National Rural Electric Cooperative Association 2/13/12  comments on the Volcker Rule (co-author with Patricia Dodanville)
  • International Energy Credit Association 7/27/11 comments on CFTC Swaps Definition NOPR
  • California Utilities 7/22/11 joint comments on CFTC Swaps Definition NOPR (environmental attributes sections)
  • Environmental Markets Association 7/21/11 comments on CFTC Swaps Definition NOPR
  • International Energy Credit Association 4/11/11 comments on CFTC Trading Relationship Documentation NOPR
  • International Energy Credit Association 2/22/11 comments on CFTC End-User Exemption NOPR
  • Environmental Markets Association 12/17/10 comments on Dodd-Frank Section 750 Study.
  • Environmental Markets Association 9/20/10 comments on the CFTC/SEC Dodd-Frank definitional ANOPR
  • comments on  9/4/09 to the CFTC Notice of Intended Rulemaking on Chicago Climate Exchange Carbon Financial Instruments (CFTC Order)
  • Commenting on Dodd-Frank Act regulation
  • Commenting on Dodd-Frank Act regulation

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