Bhaveeta K. Mody

Experience

Ms. Mody’s practice focuses on energy law and the regulation of public utilities.  Within these core practice areas, Ms. Mody regularly represents or advises clients with matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), state commissions, and the Federal courts.  Ms. Mody has significant experience in utility ratemaking and litigation before FERC and state public utility commissions, including with respect to rate cases involving both formula and cost-of-service rates, tariff revisions, and utility mergers.

Ms. Mody has also counseled clients on various issues pertaining to transmission ownership and transmission service, including matters concerning regional transmission planning and cost allocation, open access transmission tariffs, standards of conduct, interconnection and operations agreements, transmission incentive rate treatment, and jurisdictional issues (federal/state/municipal).

Ms. Mody also has experience representing entities within, and adjacent to, regulated markets such as PJM and the California Independent System Operator (ISO), including with respect to the California ISO’s locational marginal pricing market design, Energy Imbalance Market, and regionalization initiatives, and with respect to PJM’s capacity market.  In addition, Ms. Mody has represented municipal entities, electric cooperatives and state commissions on matters involving other Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) and ISOs throughout the nation as well as with non-RTO/ISO tariffs and operations.  

 Ms. Mody has counseled clients on a wide range of state and Federal policy, rulemaking, regulatory, legislative, and legal matters.  Among such matters, Ms. Mody has assisted clients on issues related to renewable energy integration, including regulatory issues pertaining to electric storage and other distributed energy resources, net energy metering, resource planning, feed-in-tariffs, operations and reliability, ancillary services, generator interconnection, and demand-side management.  Ms. Mody also routinely assists clients with transactional matters, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various energy-related contracts.

Prior to joining the Firm in 2004, Ms. Mody worked as a Deputy Attorney General for the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, Division of Law. As a Deputy Attorney General, Ms. Mody represented the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities and in that capacity, litigated rate cases involving electric, gas, cable, telecommunications and water utilities.

Areas of Focus

Presentations & Publications

Presentations

• EUCI Seminar, FERC 101, FERC Compliance and Enforcement, (with Sean Neal, Lisa Gast, Lauren Perkins, Ellen Hill, and Gelane Diamond) (2022)
• Co-presenter, “To Be or Not to Be: Natural Gas Distribution Policy and Regulation,” American Public Power Association, National Conference (2021)
• Panelist, “Transmission Report,” American Public Power Association, Legal and Regulatory Conference (2019)
• Co-Presenter, “Are Your Transmission Rates About to Go Up?” American Public Power Association, National Conference (2019)
• Co-Presenter, “Wholesale Transmission Rates: Impact of Emerging Issues,” American Public Power Association, Legal and Regulatory Conference (2017)
• Co-Presenter, “FERC Order 1000: the Future of Transmission,” American Public Power Association, Legal and Regulatory Conference (2016)
• Co-Presenter, “FERC’s Transmission Rate Incentives: Trends and Outlook,” American Public Power Association Legal Seminar (2011)

Publications

• Contributing Author, CAISO and the California Markets, in CAPTURING THE POWER OF ELECTRIC RESTRUCTURING (Joey Lee Miranda ed., 2009).
• Contributing Author, FERC Practice and Administrative Law Judges Committee Report, ENERGY LAW JOURNAL, Volume 32, No. 2 (2011).
• Contributing Editor, FERC Practice and Administrative Law Judges Committee Report, ENERGY LAW JOURNAL, Volume 33, No. 2 (2012).
• Contributing Author, State Commission Practice Committee Report, ENERGY LAW JOURNAL, Volume 39, No. 2 (2018).