Douglas Everette Bio

Douglas is a member of the Dentons Energy practice and concentrates his practice on the representation of independent power producers, including solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric and bioenergy resources, municipalities, cooperatives, power marketers, and industrials. His practice includes the energy regulatory aspects for the financing, development, acquisition and disposition of energy assets. This includes zoning and entitlement counseling, due diligence and opinion services for renewable developers, lenders and investors. Along with his energy practice, Douglas assists hyperscale data centers with electric supply procurements, including renewable energy offtake arrangements. With experience addressing issues relating to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) implementation of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and participation in competitive wholesale energy markets, Douglas is also knowledgeable in auctions and the Day-Ahead and Real-Time energy and capacity markets in MISO, PJM, NYISO, ISO-NE, SPP, CAISO and the ERCOT regions. He also counsels on RTO/ISO market transactions, interconnection, wheeling, demand response, and public utility holding company matters. Douglas is experienced in market-based tariff and cost-based rate filings. He also counsels on hydroelectric licensing, permitting, due diligence and regulatory compliance matters. He actively advises on compliance with the reliability standards of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), and compliance with FERC's Standards of Conduct and Affiliate Restrictions for transmission providers. Energy clients turn to Douglas for counsel on Natural Gas Act issues, tariffs, pipeline and lateral extensions, storage, and drafting of facilities agreements. Douglas has served as special energy counsel on transactions totaling $13 billion, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) counsel on transactions totaling $350 million, and has negotiated and drafted fixed-for-floating intercreditor financing structures for oil and gas transactions totaling $2.9 billion. He negotiates and drafts power purchase and sales agreements, operations and maintenance agreements, site lease agreements, tolling arrangements, balancing area authority arrangements, interconnection arrangements, commodity purchase and sale agreements, including ISDAs, EEIs and NAESBs, and intercreditor agreements. Douglas also advises energy and manufacturing clients on environmental law matters including EPA regulatory compliance and renewable biomass matters.. Douglas also provides client advocacy before the FCC and state regulators, providing counsel on the acquisition and disposition of telecommunications assets, FCC licensing matters, tower and antenna structure issues, pole attachments, wireless spectrum leasing, and rooftop access arrangements. He has counseled wireless carriers, telephone and paging companies, cable television systems, broadband operators, VoIP providers, Internet service providers, data calling centers, wireless tablet manufacturers, calling card providers, and radio and television station owners. His civil trial experience includes settled multi-state Junk Fax Act claims and he has represented clients in formal and informal investigations and hearings before FERC, the FCC and state regulators.