Purpose-Driven, Future-Focused

Griffiths Legal is a mission-driven law firm focused on energy and infrastructure, providing thoughtful, forward-looking legal counsel to clients shaping the future of the energy sector.

We have decades of experience in power supply and purchase agreements, cost and development issues analysis, electrical interconnection and facilities agreements, regulatory and contract compliance, electric power laws, regulations, and tariffs

Practice Areas

Our firm provides a wide variety of experience in the energy industry, including renewable generation project development, electric interconnection, electricity product procurement, distributed energy resources, contract negotiation, regulatory advocacy, and rate-setting.

Sector Experience

Electric Utility Generation Offtakes, Development, & Interconnection

  • Siting / Permitting

  • Contracting / Negotiations

  • Legal + Regulatory Compliance

  • Transmission / Distribution Interconnections

  • Contract Performance and Invoice Calculation Enforcement

  • Sample Projects: The largest solar+storage facility in North America, large hydro power (Boulder Canyon Project + Central Valley Project renewals, etc), small hydro, wind, standalone solar, standalone batteries, and waste-to-energy.

Electric Product Transactions

Negotiation, drafting, enforcement, and dispute of electric products

  • EEI/WSPP/ISDA and custom agreement forms

  • Renewable Energy Credits (PCC1-3), Resource Adequacy, Energy, Green Attribute Reporting Rights (Green-E), Congestion Revenue Rights

  • Sample Projects: Some of the first BESS Resource Adequacy agreements, large PCC1 REC arrangements.

Load Development & Interconnection

  • System Impact and Facility Studies

  • Engineering Agreements

  • Load Interconnection / Transmission Provider Agreements

  • Behind-the-Meter Generation, Demand Response, Community Generation, and Grid-Sited Resource Issues

  • Legal + Regulatory Compliance

  • Sample Projects: Data center developments throughout the United States.

Energy Law and Regulations

California: CAISO / CEC / CPUC / ARB

  • Regional + Nationwide: FERC / WECC / NERC

  • Wholesale and retail rate-setting

  • Resource and reliability planning

  • Associated municipal utility and public agency law

  • Wholesale transmission and distribution tariffs

Changing Landscape

The energy landscape has changed dramatically with the deployment of data center infrastructure, electric vehicles, and frequent changes to the legal frameworks concerning electric resource development. We aim to guide our clients through these changes and support decisions that will serve them well in the years to come.