Julia Wood

Practice Areas

Julia has focused her practice primarily on hydroelectric and electric power matters since 2003. She provides strategic counsel to a broad variety of electric industry participants, including independent power producers, power marketers, investor-owned utilities, and state and municipal entities. She advises clients on issues involving the Federal Power Act (FPA), National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, and other federal statutes affecting energy and water development.

Julia has significant experience with the regulation of hydroelectric projects under Part I of the FPA before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), federal and state regulatory agencies, and the U.S. Courts of Appeal. She advises clients on project development, licensing, compliance, and in the negotiation of multi-party licensing settlement agreements. She currently serves as counsel in a number of hydroelectric licensing, relicensing, license amendment, and license surrender proceedings before FERC.

Julia’s expertise extends well beyond Part I of the FPA. She also assists electric industry clients on Part II of the FPA, including on the acquisition and sale of power projects, market-based rate authorization, and related regulatory requirements before FERC. In addition, she provides counsel on energy regulatory and environmental matters to developers of offshore energy projects before the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and other federal and state agencies.