Thomas O'Donnell

Tom has significant experience with a wide range of traditional regulatory matters, including general rate cases, rulemaking and investigatory proceedings, cost adjustment mechanisms, territory disputes, service area and facility certification, and municipal franchise matters.

Tom also has experience in a variety of emerging issues in the electric and natural gas utility industries, including those relating to alternative forms of regulation, as well as those surrounding utility mergers and acquisitions and related regulatory approvals. He has assisted clients in matters relating to the electric industry restructuring, including the determination of transition costs; the structure of retail customer choice; and the scope of unbundled services, including insuring comparability of service and equitable access to incumbent facilities.

In addition, Tom has assisted clients in the electric independent power producer arena in the negotiation and drafting of power purchase agreements for the sale of capacity and energy to utilities as well as in matters relating to the interconnection of generation facilities to the electric transmission grid.

Tom served as the firm's Managing Partner from 2009-2019.