Sylwia Dakowicz

Experience

Ms. Dakowicz is an Associate in the Firm’s Sacramento office.  Her practice focuses on renewable energy, community choice aggregation, municipal, electric reliability, communications, and hydropower law.  Ms. Dakowicz drafts pleadings and provides analysis pertaining to proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on matters including utility mergers, transmission owner rate cases, and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA).  Ms. Dakowicz tracks and analyzes North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) developments, California Independent System Operator (CAISO) tariff and market changes, as well as California Energy Commission (CEC) and California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) proceedings. 

Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Dakowicz interned with the CAISO, as well as with the 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

• EUCI Seminar, FERC Electricity: Compliance and Enforcement (with Peter Scanlon, Sean Neal, Ellen Hill, and Barry Lawson) October 4-5, 2021

• Presenter, “Navigating the Legal Complexities around Distributed Generation” at the APPA 2021 Legal and Regulatory Conference in Savannah, GA (Oct. 19, 2021)

• 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)

• 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)

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