Profile

Mr. Alcantar has served as a trial litigator; a master calendar supervisor of a large team of trial counsel; an appellate lawyer appearing in federal and state jurisdictions on behalf of Los Angeles; regulatory counsel for the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power and private companies before numerous state regulatory commissions, legislative bodies, state and federal courts and before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.  His clients include large industrial metals, chemical, and paper products manufacturing companies, international petroleum producers and refining companies, petroleum pipeline operations, regulatory group associations and energy project developers and operators, large and small.

Expertise

• Major energy project development, negotiation and regulatory approval of power purchase agreements, interconnections, utility ratemaking, power contract administration advice, and litigation.
• Contract negotiation and formation for natural gas bypass pipelines, fuel supply, energy and gas users tax issues, and steam sales agreements.
• Major energy project development, negotiation and regulatory approval of power purchase agreements, interconnections, utility ratemaking, power contract administration advice, and litigation.
• Contract negotiation and formation for natural gas bypass pipelines, fuel supply, energy and gas users tax issues, and steam sales agreements.
• Petroleum pipeline, electricity, and natural gas rates and regulation advocacy.
• Utility rate case challenges, cost allocation analysis, and forecasting.
• Assessing legislative initiatives and technical editing of draft bills.
• Regulatory policy, compliance, and program review and assessment.
• Stakeholder coalition building surrounding administrative/regulatory proposals.
• Administrative litigation before Bonneville Power Administration; state utility commissions of Arizona, California, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; various California agencies and the California Independent System Operator; and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Customer generator, combined heat & power, and power market consulting.
• Testifying before committees of Congress and the California and Nevada legislatures on issues concerning energy policy, pricing, reliability, electric restructuring and regulation.