Holly advises on a broad array of state utility regulatory matters within the energy industry.

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Holly is an energy regulatory associate who represents utilities in complex state regulatory proceedings in the energy and water sectors. She handles matters from initial filing through hearing, settlement, and post-order compliance, and works closely with clients and stakeholders throughout. Holly’s practice covers every phase of contested regulatory litigation, including the drafting of initial applications, witness testimony, motions, and briefs and counseling clients on ongoing compliance and reporting obligations, along with the implementation of state utility commission orders.

Before joining Troutman Pepper Locke, Holly was assistant general counsel for the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. That experience gives her an insider’s perspective on agency decision-making, which she draws on in representing regulated utility clients.

  • Represented large, regulated utility clients in performance-based regulation proceedings before state utility commission.
  • Represented public utilities in business combination proceedings before multiple state utility commissions, helping secure favorable regulatory approvals.
  • Represented regulated utility in integrated resource planning, resource certification, and fuel cost recovery proceedings before the Georgia Public Service Commission.

Holly is an energy regulatory associate who represents utilities in complex state regulatory proceedings in the energy and water sectors. She handles matters from initial filing through hearing, settlement, and post-order compliance, and works closely with clients and stakeholders throughout. Holly’s practice covers every phase of contested regulatory litigation, including the drafting of initial applications, witness testimony, motions, and briefs and counseling clients on ongoing compliance and reporting obligations, along with the implementation of state utility commission orders.

Before joining Troutman Pepper Locke, Holly was assistant general counsel for the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. That experience gives her an insider’s perspective on agency decision-making, which she draws on in representing regulated utility clients.

  • Represented large, regulated utility clients in performance-based regulation proceedings before state utility commission.
  • Represented public utilities in business combination proceedings before multiple state utility commissions, helping secure favorable regulatory approvals.
  • Represented regulated utility in integrated resource planning, resource certification, and fuel cost recovery proceedings before the Georgia Public Service Commission.

Top areas of focus

  • Member, North Carolina Bar Association
  • Member, State Bar of Georgia
  • North Carolina Court of Appeals, Hon. Tobias S. Hampson, 2019-2021

Education

  • Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D., editor-in-chief, Wake Forest Law Review; Wake Forest Moot Court; Environmental Law Society
  • University of South Carolina Honors College, B.A., cum laude

Bar Admissions

  • North Carolina
  • Georgia