Sylwia Dakowicz

Experience

Sylwia Dakowicz concentrates on helping publicly owned utilities, joint power authorities, municipalities, non-profits, and community choice aggregators navigate the dynamic energy regulatory, market, and transactional landscape.

Ms. Dakowicz regularly assists clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on various transmission rate issues, hydropower licensing, mergers, and enforcement proceedings. She has negotiated on behalf of public power clients in several, complex, transmission rate cases that resulted in significant customer savings. In addition, she regularly advises on formula rate, transmission incentive rate treatment, and transmission service issues.

By keeping abreast of industry developments, Ms. Dakowicz advises on such issues as large loads, regulatory changes to reciprocity Tariffs, generator interconnection procedures, electric storage, net energy metering, and natural gas state policies. She also represents clients on procurement issues, including advising on a transmission line development solicitation. Additionally, she assists with grant application submissions, implementation, and contracting. Her experience also includes guiding clients through regulatory rulemaking proceedings as well as organized market rules and stakeholder processes.

Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Dakowicz interned with the California Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO), as well as with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for both Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves and the Administrative Law Judge Division.  At the CPUC, Ms. Dakowicz analyzed for the Administrative Law Division matters in both the energy and telecommunications fields, involving such matters as market rules and expert testimony standards.  Before attending law school, Ms. Dakowicz worked as an Anti-Money Laundering Analyst at an international bank.

Areas of Focus

Presentations & Publications

Presentations

• Panelist, “California Update – What’s Happening in the State?” at the National Hydropower Association’s 2025 California Regional Meeting in Sacramento, CA (June 25, 2025)
• Panelist, “Transition to FERC 2023” at the TenneSEIA’s 2024 Tennessee Valley Solar + Storage Conference in Huntsville, AL (Nov. 20, 2024)
• Panelist, “Regulations and Legislation: Hot Topics Affecting Hydro Today” at the National Hydropower Association’s 2022 Clean Currents Conference in Sacramento, CA (Oct. 20, 2022)
• Moderator, Panel on “Natural Gas in the Clean Energy Transition” at the Energy Bar Association’s 2022 Practices Steering Committee Half Day Event (Sept. 8. 2022)
• Presenter, “Navigating the Legal Complexities around Distributed Generation” at the APPA 2021 Legal and Regulatory Conference in Savannah, GA (Oct. 19, 2021)
• EUCI Seminar, FERC Electricity: Compliance and Enforcement (with Peter Scanlon, Sean Neal, Ellen Hill, and Barry Lawson), October 4-5, 2021

Publications

• Lauren Perkins, Sylwia Dakowicz, Ellen Hill, Peter Kissel & Sean Neal, Hydropower's Promise: The Opportunities and Challenges of Hydropower for Mitigating Climate-Driven Scarcity, 13 San Diego J. Climate & Energy L. 37 (2022)
  Available at: https://digital.sandiego.edu/jcel/vol13/iss1/3