Practice Areas

Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke has represented clients in energy and utility matters since its founding in 1971. DWGP's experience enables it to provide prompt, accurate and in-depth analysis of state and federal energy and utility laws and regulations. The Firm develops creative strategies and options for clients, provides advice on business decisions, drafts and reviews contracts and agreements, and serves as transactional counsel. Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke's experience particularly includes trial and appellate litigation before state and federal administrative agencies and...

Compliance with the myriad federal and state regulations is a significant challenge to utilities, with agencies increasing their emphasis on enforcement. Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke attorneys assist and counsel clients with proactive and reactive strategies to electric reliability compliance, both Operational (FERC Order No. 693) and Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP). DWGP attorneys tailor reliability compliance strategies to the unique needs of each client, including with respect to internal compliance programs, compliance monitoring and enforcement, standards development...

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. DWGP’s services supporting sustainability objectives include the following: Energy Policy monitoring and advocacy on climate change adaptation and mitigation, EV charging, hydrogen technologies Compliance with energy security...

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. Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke’s natural gas practice includes counseling clients on supply contracts and state and federal regulatory issues involving natural gas pipelines, including rate proceedings before the FERC and state utility commissions. DWGP...

Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke represents locally-owned community choice aggregators that provide clean renewable energy to retail customers over incumbent utility transmission and distribution facilities. DWGP has been helping communities and municipalities purchase and develop power generation and distribution facilities since the Firm’s founding. DWGP attorneys have helped communities carve out franchises from incumbent utilities, aggregate load, and organize into local power districts and joint action agencies. Our attorneys have experience with community choice aggregation,...

Due to our increased reliance on digital networks and cyberspace, vulnerabilities that threaten the cyber security of the electric grid and the data privacy of its customers have been exposed. Through the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the electric industry was the first to be subject to mandatory and enforceable cyber security standards. These Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards, as developed by the stakeholder-led development process of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), are...

Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke’s nonprofit practice group represents and provides legal counsel to incorporated and unincorporated nonprofits that are organized for educational, charitable, scientific, social welfare and business league purposes. DWGP represents charities, trade associations, and cooperatives located throughout the country that are organized under the laws of various jurisdictions, including, but not limited to the District of Columbia, Delaware, New York and California. The Firm routinely advises non-profits on a broad range of matters including choice of business...

Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke has represented distribution and generation and transmission rural electric cooperatives for decades. Since its founding in 1971 as an energy and regulatory law firm, DWGP has made a commitment to serving cooperatives and consumer-oriented clients. In representing the interests of cooperative electric utilities, DWGP has substantial experience in power purchasing, securing and maintaining service territory, project development, interconnection, and the operation of markets. We have experience in the full range of arrangements necessary for generation and...

Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke's communications practice group represents and provides legal counseling to Tribes, municipalities and providers throughout the country on a broad range of communications matters, including cable television, common carriage, telephony, fiber optics and wireless technologies, with particular emphasis on issues pertaining to the deployment of state-of-the-art broadband networks. DWGP routinely represents clients before the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") in all phases of regulation and regulated transactions, including licensing, spectrum...

Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke offers a broad range experience to clients in the renewable energy sector, providing regulatory, project development, transactional, and strategic services on behalf of renewables. DWGP advises clients operating and developing a wide array of renewable resource types, from biofuels, biomass, geothermal, ocean thermal energy conversion, storage, solar, waste-to-energy, and wind. DWGP works with municipal and governmental clients to ensure that local, state and federal procurement goals are achieved. On behalf of our clients, the Firm regularly analyzes and...

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 diligence on hydro asset acquisitions. DWGP's clients include irrigation...

Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer and Pembroke, P.C., maintains an active government relations practice covering public policy, political law and ethics. DWGP provides advice and representation to individuals, municipal and other governmental entities including states, trade association, corporate and nonprofit clients on a range of federal policy matters. The Firm closely monitors federal legislation and rulemakings to provide in depth analyses of potential impacts on our clients. The Firm's comprehensive understanding of the administration and Congress, and in particular the key participants in the...

Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke has extensive experience representing clients on government contract matters at the federal and state levels. DWGP’s experience enables it to provide strategic 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, and negotiates, drafts and reviews contracts and agreements. Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke’s government contracts clients include municipal and tribal electric entities, state energy offices,...

Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer, & Pembroke, P.C. 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. This representation involves all aspects of federal regulatory matters involving public utilities and interstate...

Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke has provided federal advocacy on various legislative vehicles to advance the energy efficiency and renewable energy goals of several State and local entities. In particular, DWGP offers strategic counsel on energy-related matters that require interpretation or that might evolve through legislation over time. For example, on behalf of multiple clients, the Firm worked on the energy-related provisions and implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the...

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. The environmental practice group's experience includes counseling regarding environmental compliance, acquisition of state and federal permits, negotiation of consent orders, representation of clients before Congress, state and federal agencies,...

Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke has extensive experience in municipal law, having served municipalities' legal requirements for over forty years. DWGP'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, outside counsel or joint action agencies. Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke's municipal law services include: Negotiation, enforcement, and litigation of contracts Document drafting for industrial development...

Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke provides project development support to energy service companies (ESCOs), and advises them on all matters. Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke’s services for this client group include: Contract drafting and negotiation in all phases of project development and implementation Providing advice on federal and state contracting practices and procedure Working with the Federal Energy Management Program and coordination with the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop programs and processes to facilitate the widespread...

Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke has extensive experience in advising clients that develop and operate diverse energy resources, from biofuels, biomass, geothermal, natural gas, ocean thermal energy conversion, storage, solar, waste-to-energy, and wind. DWGP assists clients through virtually every phase of project development, from small-scale to utility-scale projects. In addition to negotiating project development agreements, DWGP has worked on complex site control and feasibility issues. Further, the Firm identifies creative options to secure necessary transmission access and rights to...