Christopher R. Jones

Energy M&A

• Served as FERC counsel on multiple large utility mergers and acquisitions.
• Counseled multiple utilities on asset transfers and corporate transactions requiring FERC approval under Sections 203 and 204 of the Federal Power Act.
• Counseled multiple utilities on acquisitions and dispositions of transmission assets.
• Counseled multiple utilities on acquisitions and dispositions of generating facilities.
• Counseled multiple utilities on upstream changes in control.

Transmission and Generation Cost-of-Service/Rate Cases

• Served as lead counsel in four cost-of-service transmission rate cases.
• Represented multiple generators in the negotiation of reliability-must-run cost-of-service contracts and in related FERC proceedings.
• Counseled multiple transmission owners on formula rate design and associated protocols and compliance.
• Represented a transmission owner in its application for incentive transmission rates.

Energy Markets

• Represented western RTO in drafting and defending a new market tariff based on locational marginal prices.
• Represented a merchant-generating arm of a utility holding company in a FERC complaint against an eastern RTO relating to its capacity market and generator interconnection queue.
• Represented a vertically integrated utility in a FERC hearing regarding generation market power issues.
• Served as counsel in three different RTO markets on “buyer-side” market power proceedings at the FERC.
• Represented several vertically integrated utilities in the defense and maintenance of market-based rate authority.
• Counseled a merchant generator regarding RTO market design issues.
• Represented a western RTO in multiple tariff amendments regarding market design issues.

Other Transmission/OATT Issues

• Represented midwest transmission owners in multiple disputes with interconnection customers.
• Represented multiple utilities with respect to reforming their generator interconnection procedures.
• Represented renewable energy developers in FERC compliance efforts.

Representative matters may include engagements before joining Troutman Pepper.

• Moderator, CEO Panel, 2017 Energy Bar Association Mid-Year Review.
• Panelist, 2017 Gulf Coast Power Association Annual Meeting.
• Speaker, "Competition - What Is the Future of FERC's Review of Competition Through Its Section 203 Authority and Market-Based Rates?," Troutman Energy Conference 2018 (Chicago), June 28, 2018.
• Speaker, "Transmission Rates: Risks and Trends," Troutman Energy Conference 2017 (Chicago), June 28, 2017.
• Speaker, "Market Development 2018," Troutman Energy Conference 2018 (Chicago), June 20, 2018.
• "FERC Order No. 890 The Next Generation of OATT Transmission Service," Troutman Sanders Conference 2007.
• Moderator, 2008 American Bar Association panel discussion on the Supreme Court's Decision in Morgan Stanley v. FERC.

• Co-author, " FERC Interconnection NOPR Proposes Various Reforms," Troutman Pepper, June 27, 2022.
• Co-author, Alternative Energy & Power Guide 2019, Chambers and Partners, July 2018.
• “ Reconsidering Synergies, Cap-ex Plans Raise the Stakes for Utility Mergers,” Public Utilities Fortnightly, July 2011.
• Served as executive editor of Troutman Transmission Monthly.

• Next Generation Partner Ranking in The Legal 500 United States for Industry Focus: Energy Regulation: Conventional Power (2022)
• Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer (2018, 2020-2021) – independently rated lawyers
• Best Lawyers in America®: Energy Law (2019-2023)
• Chambers USA: Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation) USA Nationwide (2019-2023)
• Super Lawyers: "Rising Star" in Energy & Resources Law, Washington, D.C. (2013-2015)

• Director of business development, Cassidy & Associates Government Relations, 2002-2004
• Director of business development, SWR Worldwide Opinion Research, 2000-2002
• Special assistant to the candidate, Elizabeth Dole for President, 1999
• Special assistant to the president, American Red Cross, 1998