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  • 50th Anniversary

    Happy New Year!

    2021 marks a significant milestone for DWGP. This year, we are proud to be celebrating 50 years in business and in service to clients in which we believe, and whose missions we are proud to have taken on as our own. To commemorate our golden anniversary, we are planning a year-long celebration. Some of the highlights:

    • We hope you will join us for our “Building on the Past, Preparing for the Future” quarterly industry seminars, focusing on issues of importance to your business
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    • Take a quick trip down memory lane by viewing a sampling of significant events in history and for DWGP, highlighted in our 50th Anniversary Timeline
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    • Please sign our virtual guest book to share your memories and hopes for the future
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    • Mark your calendars, as we will be raising a glass with a virtual toast on April 1, 2021
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    We look forward to celebrating our 50th Anniversary with you!
  • Communications

    Communications

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke represents public power, government, and Tribes before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on licensing, spectrum, common carriage, and emerging technology issues. Our representation includes deployment of advanced broadband networks, wireless and fiber optic technologies, cable television (CATV) franchising and rates, and negotiating rights-of-way and pole attachments.

  • Community Choice/Community Power Aggregation

    Community Choice/Community Power Aggregation

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke (“DWGP”) has been helping communities and municipalities purchase and develop power generation and distribution since the Firm’s founding. We have helped communities organize themselves, carving out franchises from incumbent utilities, aggregating load, and organizing into local power districts and joint action agencies. Community Choice Aggregation (“CCA”) is an organizing principle in which a community can come together and pool its electricity load to purchase or develop power, which typically relies on renewable or clean energy.

  • Cooperative Law

    Cooperative Law

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke has represented distribution and generation and transmission electric cooperatives for decades, including with respect to the Rural Utilities Service, the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation, state commissions, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The Firm's experience allows it to develop creative solutions to real-world challenges cooperative face.

  • Cyber Security and Customer Privacy

    Cyber Security and Customer Privacy

    Cyber security, information sharing and customer privacy are emerging areas of law due to smart technology deployment and a plethora of newsworthy cyber attacks. Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke guides clients through the myriad standards, policies and guidelines issued by NERC, FERC, NIST, NAESB, DOE and DHS, to prevent breaches and protect customer data.

  • Electric Reliability

    Electric Reliability

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke counsels clients on all aspects of NERC Electric Reliability Compliance for both Operational (FERC Order 693) and Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards, including: internal compliance programs, compliance training, self-certification, self-reporting, mock audits, Regional Entity data submittals, RSAWs, compliance audits, NOAVs, settlement negotiations and mitigation plans.

  • Energy and Utility

    Energy and Utility

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke represents municipal electric utilities, rural electric cooperatives and government entities on all areas of energy and utility law. DWGP also represents natural gas clients on regulatory, policy, tariff, rate, certificate and contract matters. Our experienced practitioners provide comprehensive analysis of state and federal laws and regulations.

  • Energy Service Companies

    Energy Service Companies

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke provides project development support to energy service companies (ESCOs), and advises them on all matters.

  • Environmental

    Environmental

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke has traditionally represented many of its utility and municipal clients in environmental matters. DWGP's broad experience in environmental issues enables it to provide clients with a full range of environmental services, from litigation of environmental matters to the development of long-term compliance strategies.

  • Governmental Contracts

    Governmental Contracts

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke represents clients in government contract matters at the federal and state level. The Firm's experience enables it to provide prompt, accurate and in-depth analysis of state and federal procurement issues, laws and regulations. The Firm develops creative strategies and appropriate solutions for clients, provides advice on business decisions, negotiates, drafts and reviews contracts and agreements.

  • Hydropower

    Hydropower

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke offers hydroelectric project owners and developers an unparalled depth of experience in all aspects of hydropower regulation. DWGP's attorneys have established credentials in the hydropower community and are involved in the licensing and development of hydroelectric projects nationwide. The Firm provides our clients the prompt and personal attention they require in addressing all their hydropower project development, licensing, relicensing and compliance needs, and in assisting in due dilgence on hydro asset acquisitions. DWGP's clients include irrigation districts, public and private utilities and developers.

  • Intellectual Property

    Intellectual Property

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke provides counseling, regulatory representation, and litigation services to assist clients in obtaining, monetizing, protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights, including rights they may have in their inventions, names, logos, slogans and brands.

  • Municipal Law

    Municipal

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke has extensive experience in municipal law, having served municipalities' legal requirements for over twenty years. The Firm's insight into municipal concerns and its broad municipal experience enables it to provide effective and focused legal support to municipalities. The Firm serves municipalities directly or through the municipality's law department or outside counsel.

  • Natural Gas Pipelines and Supply

    Natural Gas Pipelines & Supply

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke provides a range of services to clients in the natural gas sector. As the nation’s gas pipeline and distribution infrastructure continues to evolve, DWGP attorneys are at the vanguard of natural gas proceedings that involve gas infrastructure development and transfer, and natural gas supply matters.

  • Non-Profit

    Non-Profit

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke offers significant experience incorporating and representing nonprofits, including charities, associations and cooperatives. The Firm advises on choice of business model, drafting and revising articles of incorporation and bylaws, and conflict of interest, document retention and whistleblower policies. We serve as general counsel, advising on regulatory, legislative, contractual, and employment matters.

  • Public Policy, Political Law and Government Ethics

    Public Policy, Political Law and Government Ethics

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke advises clients on the influence of public policy and other political activity, advising and assisting clients in complying with laws and regulations governing ethics, campaign finance (including PACs), gifts and travel rules for elected officials and federal lobbying under the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act ("HOLGA").

  • Renewable Energy

    Renewable Energy

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke advises biofuel, biomass, geothermal, ocean thermal energy conversion, solar, waste-to-energy, and wind development clients through every phase of project development and funding. DWGP negotiates interconnection and power purchase agreements to deliver renewable resources to markets and help utilities meet carbon, greenhouse gas and renewable portfolio standard goals.

  • Smart Grid and Energy Efficiency

    Smart Grid and Energy Efficiency

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke provides federal and state level support for grid modernization efforts. The Firm assists in securing funding to install Advanced Metering Infrastructure (“AMI”) facilities and work-force training, as well as implementing demand-side management programs, energy efficiency measures, smart meter integration, customer privacy protections, smart grid technology deployment, and distributed generation.

  • State Commissions

    State Commissions

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer, & Pembroke represents state utility commissions before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and United States Circuit Courts of Appeals. Our attorneys, many of whom have served as in-house counsel at state commissions or FERC, are well-known and highly-regarded in the energy bar and at FERC. DWGP has decades of experience managing complex federal public utility litigation and energy policy issues that affect state commissions.

  • SUSTAINABILITY

    Sustainability

    Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke represents locally-owned and operated utilities, non-profit organizations, and state agencies that make sustainability integral to their mission and an element of their decision-making process. Our attorneys support achievement of sustainability objectives through representation on energy, environmental, and economic matters.

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50th Anniversary

  • 50th Anniversary Timeline

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  • “Change in Administration” Webinar by Jeff Genzer and Derek Dyson – Full Webinar Recording and Slide Deck Now Available

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  • DWGP Looks Ahead After 50 Years of Service

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Regulatory Updates and Firm News

  • PJM Considers Enhancements to Capacity Market

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  • President Biden Announces New Infrastructure Plan

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  • DOE to Host Webinars on Wildfire Risk to Electric Infrastructure

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  • April 1, 2021 Newly Effective Reliability Standards

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  • DWGP Assists the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority in Securing USDA Loan Award of $235 Million for Rural Utility Infrastructure Development

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  • California Joint Agencies Issue First SB 100 Report, and the CEC Approves Volumes I and III of the 2020 IEPR Update

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  • FERC Considering Whether to Require Additional Financial Assurances of Hydro Licensees

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  • FERC Takes Actions Concerning Fed/State Authority over Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations

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  • FERC to Conduct Conference on “Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and Electric System Reliability”

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  • Peter Kissel and Sylwia Dakowicz Join DWGP

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  • FERC Hosted Listening Sessions Regarding Office of Public Participation

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  • Executive Order Signed to Protect “America’s Supply Chains”

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