RELATED SERVICES
Shane Early devotes his practice to counseling clients on energy matters, including public utilities and renewable energy projects. He represents energy companies in regulatory and commercial matters, including contested regulatory proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state regulatory agencies. Shane focuses his practice on utility regulatory, administrative litigation and project development. He provides guidance to clients in the utilities sectors and advocates for favorable policies with regulators.
Prior to joining the Firm, he was General Counsel for the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities where he oversaw all aspects of public utility regulation for electric, gas and water companies, such as the procurement and approval of long-term power purchase agreements for renewable energy, base rate reviews, energy efficiency plans and the issuance of hundreds of orders per year.
Shane Early devotes his practice to counseling clients on energy matters, including public utilities and renewable energy projects. He represents energy companies in regulatory and commercial matters, including contested regulatory proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state regulatory agencies. Shane focuses his practice on utility regulatory, administrative litigation and project development. He provides guidance to clients in the utilities sectors and advocates for favorable policies with regulators.
Prior to joining the Firm, he was General Counsel for the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities where he oversaw all aspects of public utility regulation for electric, gas and water companies, such as the procurement and approval of long-term power purchase agreements for renewable energy, base rate reviews, energy efficiency plans and the issuance of hundreds of orders per year.
Shane's experience includes:
- Representing renewable energy developers in FERC rate and generation interconnection proceedings
- Representing renewable energy developers in FERC rulemakings
- Representing renewable energy developers in FERC queue reform proceedings
- Participating in meetings with states, NESCOE and ISO-NE regarding the future of the region's energy policy and its electric grid
- Overseeing the Massachusetts grid modernization order, which authorized $220 million dollars of investments in technologies to update and improve the efficiency and reliability of the state's electric grid
- Overseeing the adjudication of solar rights concerning ISO-NE's forward capacity market and the use of energy storage systems by net metering customers
- Implementing the SMART Plan for the Massachusetts solar program
- Handling zoning exemptions for the siting of energy facilities
- Handling appeals to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court regarding the approval of a long-term contract for hydroelectric generation
- Applying a new federal corporate tax rate to regulated utilities
- Leading the legal analysis, policy analysis and drafting for numerous base rate cases involving electric, gas and water utilities
- Drafting special orders under M.G.L. c. 25, § 4B to facilitate the Merrimack Valley restoration and address the effects of COVID-19, marking the first times this statute was used
- Coordinating the imposition and regulation of moratoriums on pipeline work by certain investor owned utilities
CREDENTIALS
- J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law, 2008
Notes and Comments Editor, Connecticut Journal of International Law - B.S., Psychology, Trinity College (CT), 2003
- Connecticut
- Massachusetts
- General Counsel, Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (2018-2021)
- Hearing Officer, Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (2016-2018)
- Assistant Corporation Counsel, City of Boston Law Department (2013-2016)
- Litigation Associate, Nutter, McClennen, & Fish, Boston (2008-2013)