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Paul Forshay

Paul Forshay, Partner, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan L.L.P.Partner
Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan L.L.P.
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Paul F. Forshay is a Partner with Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan in Washington, DC, where he concentrates on federal and state energy regulatory matters concerning the electric power, natural gas and oil pipeline industries. Mr. Forshay has extensive experience in all aspects of natural gas and oil pipeline rate litigation before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and has participated in FERC rulemaking proceedings concerning gas and electric industry restructuring, alternative ratemaking approaches and negotiated terms/conditions of service for natural gas pipelines, and generic ratemaking methodologies for oil pipelines. At the state level, he has participated in utility rate proceedings before a number of state commissions, and has been actively involved in electric and gas utility restructuring matters in California, New Jersey, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania. His clients include national marketers of electric power and natural gas, industrial groups, individual consumers of electric power and natural gas services, and oil pipelines. Apart from his administrative litigation and policy work, Mr. Forshay has assisted clients on a diverse range of energy-related matters, such as gas transportation agreements, power purchase and transmission agreements, state licensing requirements for power marketers, import-export regulations, and government contract requirements. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History
1990 - present Partner
Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan L.L.P.

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FERC's Standards of Conduct NOPR: Back to the Future? | 04-03-2008
Author: Paul Forshay, Partner, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan L.L.P.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's recently issued Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Standards of Conduct applicable to natural gas and electric transmission providers would establish revised standards for preventing anti-competitive information sharing between those trasmission...

“Affirmative Benefits” and the Public Interest: A Higher Hurdle for Utility Mergers? | 03-19-2007
Author: Paul Forshay, Partner, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan L.L.P.

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court's decision in Popowsky underscores the importance of rate-related benefits in demonstrating that a proposed merger affords sufficient "affirmative benefits" to satisfy the statutory "public interest" standard. Popowsky indicates that promises of continued "good corporate...

FERC’s Standards of Conduct: Back to the Drawing Board | 12-01-2006
Analysis of: National Fuel unit settles with FERC | washington.bizjournals.com
Author: Paul Forshay, Partner, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan L.L.P.

-- D.C. Circuit decision in National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. v. FERC vacates and remands Order No. 2004 as applied to natural gas pipelines. -- The Commission's theoretical concerns with potential anti-competitive conduct, without actual evidence of such conduct, were insufficient to justify imposing...

FERC Opens Door to Changes in Cost of Equity Model | 10-27-2006
Author: Paul Forshay, Partner, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan L.L.P.

FERC's Kern River decision opens the door to future changes in the Commission's traditional DCF model for setting pipeline equity returns. FERC indicates a willingness to consider future DCF proxy groups that include properly adjusted MLP distributions. FERC also indicates a willingness to consider...

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