Joe joined BGM as an associate in 2006. He has worked with investor-owned utilities and their energy affiliates in matters before FERC involving formula rates, incentives for transmission projects, service agreements, coordination agreements, tariff revisions and cost allocation for transmission network upgrades. He has experience with issues involving FERC jurisdiction, active and passive investor status, market-based rate authorization, PUHCA reporting requirements, power sales agreements, interconnection and wholesale distribution agreements, open access transmission tariffs and National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors. He also has advised clients about various issues related to FERC’s Standards of Conduct, transmission planning requirements and generator interconnections.

Joe worked as an attorney-adviser in FERC’s Office of General Counsel beginning in 2001, where he developed and drafted several hundred orders, opinions, and other documents that resolved legal, economic, financial and technical issues related to matters affecting the electric, natural gas and oil pipeline industries. He served as lead attorney on the Enron market-based rate and blanket marketing certificate show cause and revocation orders, the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Final Rule on the PURPA Section 210(m) mandatory purchase obligation and numerous reactive power filings. He also wrote one of the key chapters of the FERC Staff Report, Principles for Efficient and Reliable Reactive Supply and Consumption (2005). He received numerous quality service awards during his tenure at FERC.

Joe graduated with honor from DePaul University in 1998 with a B.A. in political science and from the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law in 2001 where he served as an associate editor on the Catholic University Law Review. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. He is a member of the Energy Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia

Education

• Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, J.D. (2001), certificate from the Institute for Comparative and International Law

• DePaul University, B.A. (1998), with honor

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Energy Bar Association

• American Bar Association