Carrie Collier-Brown

Professional Memberships

State Bar of Texas, Public Utility Law Section; Council Member, 2017-2019; Treasurer, 2020; Chair-Elect, 2021; Chair, 2022; Past-Chair, 2023

UT Advanced Administrative Law Seminar Planning Committee, 2021-2022

Gulf Coast Power Association (GCPA); EmPOWERing Women Committee Member, 2017-2020; EmPOWERing Women Leadership Conference Planning Committee, 2015-2019; Conference Planning Committee, Chair 2020

Texas Utility Lawyers, 2014-2019

Career

With her deep ‎understanding of the Texas wholesale and retail electric markets and the regulatory ‎environment at the Texas PUC and ERCOT, Carrie provides clients with practical solutions ‎in agency proceedings, corporate transactions, and civil litigation. ‎

Carrie represents clients in a broad range of matters, including competitive retail and wholesale market policy, renewable energy project development and acquisitions, regulatory certifications, rate ‎applications, compliance and enforcement, and electric transmission Certificate of Convenience and Necessity (CCN) ‎proceedings.

Carrie has developed a particularly strong niche practice in advising electric generators and end users on complex behind-the-meter and private use network projects (PUN) in ERCOT. She has extensive experience guiding clients through the regulatory process for interconnecting these projects to the grid, including large loads co-located with power generation facilities.

Prior to earning her law degree, Carrie worked at the Texas Legislature covering proposed legislation to create a competitive retail electric market. She went on to accept a role with the Texas PUC, where she led numerous rulemaking projects to implement retail electric choice before returning to legislative work in a government relations role. Fascinated by the complexity of energy regulatory law, she pursued a law degree, and then joined an energy-focused firm in DC.

She later returned to her home state of Texas, and more than 15 years later, Carrie continues to love the intersections of energy law, markets, and policy at the heart of her law practice. She is known as a highly knowledgeable advocate for participants in the competitive electric market in Texas and for her many years of experience in sophisticated commercial and regulatory transactions. Most of all, clients appreciate her creative thinking: Carrie’s solutions are never off-the-shelf answers, and she has a true talent for particularly complex projects.