Malcolm C. McLellan

Electric Transmission

• Guides transmission providers manage their Open Access Transmission Tariff, business practices, rate and service schedules, and grandfathered agreements
• Counsels on rate issues for existing facilities and new construction
• Negotiates agreements for transmission service, generator interconnection, transmission-to-transmission interconnection, ancillary services, and balancing authority areas
• Guided the negotiation, development and regulatory approval of Ace Diversity Interchange - a tool through which electric balancing authorities share the management of area control error
• Worked on the development of multiple regional transmission organizations
• Worked on the development and operations of regional and interregional transmission planning for NorthernGrid and Northern Tier Transmission Group in the northern portion of the Western Interconnection

Enforcement Proceedings

• Represents utilities in FERC investigations into transmission sales, transmission utilization, power marketing transactions, and sales into organized markets
• Represents NERC registered entities in alleged violations of mandatory electric reliability standards

Compliance Programs

• Experienced creating compliance programs, and corporate standards, policies and business practices
• Represents utilities seeking FERC No Action Letters and regulatory interpretations
• Counsels on Dodd Frank compliance, Standards of Conduct, and Interlocking Directors

Electric Reliability Standards

• Guides utilities on mandatory reliability standard compliance
• Assists utilities with decisions related to registration, deregistration and exemption
• Represent NERC registered entities with compliance audits and enforcement proceedings
• Negotiated the Reliability Management Agreement in the Western Interconnection – the first agreement by which electric utilities agreed to minimum electric reliability standards. The agreement became of the foundation of mandatory electric reliability standards that were enacted by Congress as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005
• Developed and negotiated the Pacific Northwest Security Coordinator, an agreement among and between electric balancing authority in the Western Interconnection for their coordination and oversight of electric balancing authorities

Power Marketing and Power Purchase Agreements

• Counsels on market based rate authority, Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), Qualifying Facility (QF), and Exempt Wholesale Generator (EWG) compliance
• Represents purchases and sellers in the negotiation of power purchase and sale agreements, electric storage agreements, transmission service agreements, and synthetic power purchase and sales agreements
• Experience working with the Western Systems Power Pool Agreement, EEI Master Services Agreement, and custom agreements
• Performs due diligence
• Work with the registration and trading of renewable energy credits

Electric Storage Projects

• Develop requests for proposals for various storage technologies and configurations, including battery storage projects and compressed air storage projects
• Manage the standards of conduct issues surrounding acquisition, interconnection, and transmission service for storage projects
• Manage new interconnections of storage resources, particularly where the storage acts primarily as a generation resource or as a transmission resource
• Manage modifications of existing interconnections to add storage (e.g., existing solar or wind facilities adding storage capability)
• Assist with offtake agreements for storage projects
• Evaluate charging and discharging options for storage projects, including assessing transmission rights and types of energy that may be used to charge storage projects, and assessing operational issues
• Negotiation and implementation of pseudo-ties for storage projects to move the project from the balancing authority area to which it is interconnected into another balancing authority area
• Manage the acquisition of transmission service for storage projects
• Worked on retail projects to encourage the use of storage on the distribution system

District Energy

• Structured the development of an agreement through which heat from data centers is used to heat office complexes

Hydroelectric

• Represents hydroelectric licensees obtain and comply with project licenses and associated permits
• Represents developers and owners of non-FERC jurisdictional hydroelectric projects