Balch & Bingham LLP

Energy

Partner

Lyle Larson represents a broad spectrum of clients involved in all aspects of the electric power sector, including matters ranging from FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) litigation and compliance matters, utility asset transactions, complex interconnection arrangements (including co-location and surplus), external resource participation in RTO markets and pseudo-tie arrangements, NERC and regional reliability entity matters (including counsel to large regional Reliability Coordinator), IROL-Critical designated generator compensation, large load integration, smart grid and distributed resources, mergers and acquisitions, Section 203 applications, market-based rates, open-access transmission tariff formulary rates, RTO capacity, energy and ancillary services market design matters before FERC. Among other things, Lyle serves as FERC and Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) counsel to dozens of separate market-based rate sellers that own or control over 85,000 MW of generation (coal, gas, nuclear, solar, wind, storage, hybrid and DER (including aggregations), in 28 states, in each interconnection and every RTO region). He also has served as FERC counsel to a large coalition of transmission owners in one of the major Northeastern RTOs, one of the nation’s largest vertically integrated public utility systems, located in the Southeast and a variety of large public power entities—both Federal and State chartered.

American Bar Association Section on Environment, Energy and Resources, Executive Council

Smart Grid Implementation Panel, Distributed Renewables, Generation & Storage Domain Expert Working Group, Regulatory & Market Issues Subgroup, Member

Energy Bar Association, Renewable Energy Committee, Competition/Antitrust Committee, Committee on Compliance and Enforcement, Member

Alabama Defense Lawyers Association

Birmingham Bar Association

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1991

Florida International University, B.B.A., International Business and Finance, 1987