Jennifer Martin

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ABOUT JENNIFER MARTIN

I am a Partner at Stoel Rives LLP and Co-chair of the firm’s Energy team. My law practice focuses primarily on representing energy clients in the negotiation of development-related agreements and advising on regulatory compliance related to deal structuring and implementation. I have extensive experience with matters involving many aspects of developing, selling, or acquiring renewable assets, including negotiation and diligence of power purchase and sale agreements, interconnection and transmission arrangements and fuel supply agreements. My experience also extends to corporate renewable transactions, including advising on structuring such transactions under various regulatory regimes and negotiating different types of retail supply arrangements to implement corporate sustainability goals. In this regard, I have advised clients on virtual power purchase agreements, direct access supply agreements, green energy tariff transactions and purchases from and investments in renewable energy projects. My clients include owners, investors, developers, and corporate buyers. I also have experience before state public utility commissions in the Western United States and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, representing both utility and independent power producer interests, including queue reform proceedings, Section 205 applications and approvals for FERC-jurisdictional sales, QF and exempt wholesale generator issues, market rate authority, Section 203 transfer of jurisdictional assets, investigations into compliance, and other issues.Before joining Stoel Rives, I was a judicial clerk, Minnesota Supreme Court summer associate at Stoel Rives (1998); research assistant, Professor David Baldus, University of Iowa College of Law and clerk, Circuit Court of Cook County (1993).