Overview
Diana Jeschke is senior counsel in the Energy & Infrastructure Group, where she focuses on regulatory, commercial and policy matters in the electric power sector.
She helps energy companies navigate wholesale electric market rules, interconnection and transmission issues, and negotiate power purchase agreements and other offtake arrangements. Diana represents clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and she advises on regulatory matters arising in development, financing, operation and transfers of electric generation, storage and transmission projects and portfolios.
Experience
- Plenitude, through its U.S. subsidiary Eni New Energy US Inc., in connection with energy regulatory aspects of the purchase from EDP Renewables North America LLC of an 80% cash equity interest in a portfolio of three operational solar photovoltaic plants located in Texas and Ohio with an aggregate capacity of 340 MW.
- Elia Group SA/NV on its acquisition, through Elia Group’s wholly-owned subsidiary WindGrid USA LLC, of a 35.1% stake in energyRe Giga Projects, a subsidiary of energyRe LLC, the proceeds of which will be used to fund renewable U.S. transmission and energy generation projects.
- Qualitas Energy on energy regulatory aspects of its acquisition of Heelstone Renewable Energy, a utility-scale solar and storage developer.
- Strategic investors on energy regulatory aspects of their sale of interests in several natural gas generation facilities located in the Northeast, Midcontinent and Mid-Atlantic regions.
- Generation, transmission and storage developers on interconnection procedures in CAISO, PJM, MISO, NYISO, SPP, ISO-NE and other utility territories, interconnection agreement negotiations and related FERC proceedings.
- Generation and storage developers in negotiating power purchase and other offtake agreements.
- Attentive Energy on securing a 1,342MW offtake award from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities for the Attentive Energy Two project.
- Energy market participants in response to FERC enforcement investigations.