Overview
Bruce Grabow is a partner in the Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental Practice Group in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.
Areas of Practice
Bruce represents independent power developers and owners and merchant generators, electric power marketers, merchant electric transmission companies, electric utility companies, investment and private equity funds and wholesale and retail customers in regulatory compliance and transactional matters pertaining to the electric energy industry. His practice focuses on matters regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) pursuant to the Federal Power Act (FPA), Energy Policy Act of 2005, including the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 (PUHCA) and Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA).
Bruce advises clients on:
- Generation interconnection throughout the Nation
- Reactive power compensation
- Regional transmission organization (RTO)/independent system operator (ISO) market tariff rules and policy
- Mergers, acquisitions and corporate reorganizations
- Market-based and cost-based power sales
- Transmission infrastructure development
- Transmission rate recovery
- Negotiation of interconnection, transmission, operation and maintenance agreements
- Exempt wholesale generator and qualifying facility status
- Rulemaking proceedings
- Affiliate transactions
- Securities issuances
- Standards of conduct compliance
Honors
Honors
Energy Law, The Best Lawyers in America, 2022-2024
Recommended Lawyer - Renewable/Alternative Power, The Legal 500 United States, 2023-2024
Insights
Speaking Engagements
- "Energy Transition Webinar Series: The Regulatory Framework for the Energy Transition," May 26, 2021
Education
J.D., Widener University, 1994, magna cum laude
B.S., University of Florida, 1985, with honors
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit