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Liz focuses her practice on electricity regulation and represents clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). With a passion for the complexity and ever-changing nature of the issues facing the electric industry, Liz advises clients regarding the Federal Power Act and related federal and state statutes.
Liz assists regional transmission organizations (RTOs) throughout complex FERC rulemaking proceedings and other matters. Her work with RTOs includes advising clients as they problem-solve to accommodate new and emerging technologies, with a particular focus on energy storage resources. She assists clients with drafting tariff revisions to address issues arising in RTO-operated energy, capacity, and ancillary services markets. She also advises clients on regional planning issues, including interconnection service and the drafting of related service agreements.
Immediately prior to joining Wright & Talisman, Liz served as in-house counsel to PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., where she advised clients on numerous markets and planning issues. She also has extensive experience representing investor-owned utilities and industrial energy consumers before FERC and state public utility commissions with matters such as tariff modifications, market-based rate authority, and cost allocation.
- Drafting a proposal for compliance with FERC Order No. 841 to facilitate market participation by energy storage resources.
- Representing transmission owners in promoting the availability of energy storage as a transmission-only asset in the transmission planning process.
- Drafting pleadings and compliance filings associated with revisions to RTO governing documents.
- Drafting and negotiating agreements providing for transmission interconnection and wholesale market participation.
- Representing an RTO in defending FERC-approved unintended consequences provisions arising from transmission service cost allocation.
- Representing an RTO in reactive rate litigation and settlement proceedings.
- Representing public utilities and transmission owners before FERC in market rule proceedings, administrative litigation, and technical conferences.
- Preparing market based rate applications and notice of change in status filings for entities with market based rate authority granted by FERC.
- Representing large commercial and industrial energy users in FERC proceedings regarding RTO governing documents.
- Representing large commercial and industrial energy users in various state public utility commission natural gas and electric matters.
District of Columbia
Pennsylvania
Villanova University School of Law, J.D. (2012)
George Washington University, B.A. in Political Communication, magna cum laude (2007)
Energy Bar Association
Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Energy Law (2023)
Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Washington, DC, Energy & Natural Resources (2020-2022)
