Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City Attorney’s Office is soliciting proposals from qualified law firms to assist the City Attorney’s Office in providing legal services to the City of Los Angeles (City), and LADWPas it relates tolitigation, regulatory, and transactional matters involving federal and California state energy law,renewable and conventional energy,greenhouse gas emissions, hydro-licensing and other matters related to the distribution, interconnection, transmission, generation and storage of energy. Services may entailnegotiation of power purchase agreements, power sales agreements, asset acquisition agreements, purchase and sale agreements, transmission services agreements, energy storage agreements and similar procurement agreements with differing counterparties. Theservices may also entail joint ownership structures through joint powers agencies whose membersmay procure generation, transmission and energy storage facilities with non-member utilities and other third parties, both public and private.The duties of Counsel are but not limited to, assisting the City Attorney in matters involving the following:•adjudicatory and rulemaking administrative proceedings before federal and/or state courts and agencies, e.g., Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Department of Energy(DOE), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), California Energy Commission(CEC), California Air Resources Board(CARB)andCalifornia Public Utilities Commission(CPUC), mattersinvolving the California Independent SystemOperator (CAISO)and maritime law matters involvingtheCalifornia Coastal Commission(Coastal Commission);•North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)andWestern Electric Coordinating Council (WECC) electric reliability standards and compliance, including cybersecurity-related matters;•federal and state renewable and conventional energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and cap-and-tradelawsand regulations, including allowance of emissions and related air quality matters;•development, drafting and negotiation of energy contracts and other related agreements, including contracts for the procurement ofrenewable and conventional energy resources, transmission rights and services, energy plus storage resources, and related leases, real property rights and assets;•transactional matterssuch as mergers, acquisitions and divestitures of energy assetsand equity interestsand related tax issues;•licensing and permitting of hydro-electric generation facilities, including pumped storage, with FERC involving other federal and state agencies and tribal councils;•wholesale gas, energy and environmental credit trading and hedging activities, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulations;•tax and financeissuesincluding bankruptcy issues relatedto LADWP as a creditor and/or contractual party-in-interest in bankruptcy proceedings;and•other matters related to the distribution, interconnection, transmission, generation and storage of energy, including the planning, development, construction, financing and acquisition of energy projects.
