Experience

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  Feller Law Group, PLLC

  • United States
  • Law Practice
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Principal/Owner

    • Jan 2014 - Present

    Feller Law Group, PLLC provides advisory services on regulatory compliance, energy policy, and corporate law. Our team is led by Natara G. Feller, Esq., a veteran energy attorney. After law school, Natara began her career at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, continued to build her expertise in “big law” and eventually founded Feller Law Group. In addition to her role as principal, Natara is active in the professional community and regularly writes for top energy industry publications. Originally founded as a full service energy law firm by managing member Natara G. Feller, Esq., Feller Law Group has grown its practice to serve corporate clients across highly regulated industries. With offices in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Princeton, our attorneys are highly skilled in navigating the intricacies of government to provide guidance with regulatory compliance, administrative law, government and regulatory affairs, and business counseling. Our core practice areas include Federal and State Energy Law, Retail Energy Supply, Sustainable Energy & Emerging Technologies, Administrative and Regulatory Law, Commercial Transactions and Counseling, Legalized Cannabis, and Government & Regulatory Affairs. Feller Law Group is firstly a nuts and bolts energy compliance and transactions law firm with a great deal of experience with FERC, RTO/ISO, and state energy issues. We guide our clients through the market based rate application process, advise on becoming a market participant in RTO/ISOs, and keep our clients in compliance with all required filings thereafter. Feller Energy Law Group also provides advisory services on state compliance issues, including supplier licensing and RPS requirements. We also have extensive experience drafting and negotiating wholesale supply and retail sale agreements.

  • Energy Attorney/Principal

    • Sep 2010 - Jan 2014

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  Energy Affairs Group, LLC

  • CEO

    • May 2014 - Present

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  Energy and Natural Resources Market Regulation Committee of the ABA

  • Chair

    • Sep 2011 - Present

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  Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP

  • Of Counsel

    • 2012 - 2016

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  Cleantech Law Partners

  • Of Counsel

    • May 2011 - Sep 2013

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  Energy Committee of the NYC Bar Association

  • Secretary

    • 2009 - 2012

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  Independent Contractor

  • Energy Regulatory Specialist/Independent Consultant

    • Apr 2009 - Aug 2010

    Provided legal support to law firms, non-profit organizations and corporations on a consulting basis. Services to clients included:*Representing public utilities, project developers, and lenders on a broad range of transactional and regulatory matters. *Drafting due diligence memoranda, pleadings and extensive reports. *Advising on FERC and state regulatory requirements and implications related to potential acquisitions and divestitures of FERC-jurisdictional assets and companies; preparing items for submission to FERC, including market-based rate applications and interlocking directorate applications.*Performing extensive due diligence reviews for transactions involving energy-related assets.*Monitoring administrative agency proceedings for issues affecting wholesale and retail marketers of natural gas and electricity.*Serving as NERC regulatory counsel to a Fortune 250 company, which involved: monitoring NERC matters on a daily basis and notifying senior management of relevant filings and issuances; advising on NERC Rules of Procedure and Reliability Standards; preparing Responsible Entities for compliance audits and spot checks; analyzing NERC enforcement proceedings; determining estimates of penalty assessments associated with possible violations of Reliability Standards; and creating as well as maintaining a database of summary reports on NERC-related material.*Writing client alerts and developing presentions on energy and corporate law matters. *Counseling renewable generation developers and power marketers on OATT rules, processes and requirements in various ISOs/RTOs; monitoring stakeholder meetings and other activities of the NYISO related to energy efficiency (including demand response and the treatment of energy efficiency in capacity markets), renewable energy integration and transmission.

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  Women's Council on Energy and the Environment

  • member

    • 2006 - 2010

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  Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

  • Associate

    • Jul 2007 - Mar 2009

    * Represented natural gas companies, public utilities, merchant transmission owners and nuclear power plant developers on a broad range of transactional, litigation and regulatory matters, including proceedings before the FERC, NRC, DOE and state commissions, complex commercial transactions and large-scale compliance reviews.Counseled on transmission siting, renewable generation, market enforcement, project development, rate-making, cost recovery, corporate compliance, due diligence and other industry-specific issues.* Prepared responses to government funding and subsidy programs, such as DOE loan guarantee solicitations.* Provided strategic and regulatory advice on the FPA, PURPA, NGA, NGPA, EPAct 2005 and FERC rulemakings.Drafted all manner of responsive agency pleadings, including rehearing applications, briefs, comments, testimony, protests and motions, natural gas tariff filings, QF and EWG self-certifications and market-based rate applications.

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  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

  • Attorney Advisor

    • Sep 2005 - Jul 2007

    * Assisted Judges Steven A. Glazer, Herbert Grossman and Lawrence Brenner in determination of federal energy issues brought under the Federal Power Act and Natural Gas Act.* Provided legal research and writing assistance with respect to substantive and procedural issues at various stages of FERC proceedings; maintained communication with parties; reviewed orders and initial decisions.* Awarded for contribution to complex settlement conferences and assistance in drafting initial decisions.

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  Westchester County Department of Planning

  • Environmental Planner

    • 1998 - 2002