Roger D. Feldman

Of Counsel

Roger Feldman’s practice focuses on the project and corporate finance of all types of energy, environmental and related infrastructure projects, with a particular current emphasis on the renewable and clean tech fields. In that regard, he also advises on the impact of regulatory issues, public affairs matters and public-private partnerships. Clients include project developers, financial institutions, purchasers and sellers of corporate assets, clean tech companies and parties to public-private partnerships.

Roger has senior responsibility with respect to many of the firm’s clean and renewable energies activities and projects. These have included development of renewable resources (biofuels, biomass, wind, solar and waste-to-energy), alternative energy sources (coal gasification, CTL) and of climate change finance (carbon credit origination, aggregation and trading) and energy storage and transmission reliability enhancement public-private partnerships for renewable energy and energy efficiency finance. He represents energy and environmental companies in obtaining and contracting for federal financing assistance and guarantees.

His public service includes prior government service (Deputy Administrator for Finance and Environment, U.S. Federal Energy Administration, White House Staff, U.S. Dept. of Defense, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Financial Advisory Board) and ongoing professional activities (including Chair of several American Bar Association Committees and Director of several not-for-profit organizations). His current public services includes serving as a Director of the American Council on Renewable Energy.

Roger has focused these skills on projects for the integration of energy efficiency and environmental sustainability objectives in China and other international settings. Notably, he advised a joint venture comprised of two American consulting firms, Owens Corning, a leading German district heating company and the Harbin Institute of Technology in the development of an integrated energy assessment Master Plan for the rapidly growing City of Urumqui, whose population was then over 2.3 million. The project included identification of large scale projects that would address the city's pressing air quality problems, provide solid financial returns and have an implementation time of less than 10 years.

Representative Experience

Publications

• "The Role of DoD in the Future Development of Sustainable Technology" (pps) (September 22, 2011)
• "Renewables Integration and Electricity Storage" (pps) (September 21, 2011)
• "The Emerging Electric Storage Market in the U.S.," U.S.-China Quarterly Market Review (Spring 2011)
• US-China Quarterly Market Review ACORE (Spring 2011)
• "Utility Scale Renewable Finance-Legal Issues" (January 2011)
• "From Shovel Ready Projects to Sustainable Partnerships" EnergyPulse (December 2, 2009)
• "Offsetting the Invisible Hand: Flaws in the GHG Offset Regime Under the Waxman-Markey Bill" Bloomberg Law Reports (October 2009)
• "Cooperative Federalism" EnergyPulse (July 6, 2009)
• "Stimulus Bill Opportunities: Solar, Efficiency and Their Convergence" (May 14, 2009)
• "Forstalling the Green Chill," Power Marketing Association Online (November 10, 2008)
• "For the Center to Hold," Power (May 2008)
• "Saving Private Renewables" EnergyPulse (March 19, 2008)
• "Of Turnips and Tulips and Carbon," Power Marketing Association Online (November 30, 2007)
• "When Barbie Met RECs" EnergyPulse (May 30, 2007)
• "RECs' Scriveners" EnergyPulse (December 5, 2006)

Roger Feldman is also a contributor to other energy publications including, Energy Law Journal, Public Utilities Fortnightly and Natural Resources & the Environment.

He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of Structured Finance and as a featured columnist on The Power Report – Washington Viewpoint. Representative examples of his articles are listed above.

Events

• "Finance in a World of Reduced Government Assistance" (January 18, 2012)
• Security, Sustainability and Renewables (December 14, 2011)
• "Renewable Portfolio Standards, FITs and Federalism" (November 16, 2011)
• Redefined Linkage of Security and Sustainability (June 28, 2011)
• State Incentives To Promote Renewable Power: Assessing Challenges to Federal Authority (June 7, 2011)
• "Realizing and Financing the Commercial Potential of Electric Power Storage" (May 11, 2011)
• Point-Counterpoint: Finding Common Ground on Renewable Energy Webinar (January 2011)
• "Critical Drivers for Utility Scale Renewable Energy" Seminar (January 19, 2011)
• Legal Aspects of Financing Utility Scale Renewable Energy Webinar (January 2011)
• New Renewable Business Models to Raise Capital in Constrained Markets Webinar (December 2010)
• Offshore Wind Development Webinar (November 2010)
• Impact of 2010 Elections on Renewable Energy Policy Webinar (November 2010)
• Outlook for Renewables: The Competitive Landscape Webinar (September 2010)
• Alternative & Renewable Energy Finance Available in Washington, DC (June 17, 2010)
• PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) Financing - Growth for Renewables and Energy Efficiency (June 16, 2010)
• ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources - "The Current State of Carbon Trading" (June 7, 2010)
• Green IT Economic Summit (April 22, 2010)
• Leveraging Energy Partnerships in the Stimulus Environment (April 15, 2010)
• Federal and State Incentives for Renewable Energy (February 5, 2010)
• "Renewable Finance and Stimulus Act Funding: What You Need to Know for 2010" (January 21, 2010)
• Cooperative Federalism and Green Infrastructure Development (January 20, 2010)
• "How State and Local Governments Can Leverage ARRA Funds" (November 19, 2009)
• "Sustaining the Economic Stimulus: the National Case for Biomass" webinar (November 18, 2009)
• "Financing Renewables through Public-Private Partnerships" web conference (November 8, 2009)
• "Federal Funding Opportunites for Your Biomass Company" webinar (October 5, 2009)
• "The U.S. Offsets Market: From Pre-Compliance to Mandatory Implementation" (September 15, 2009)
• "The Stimulus Package for Energy & Infrastructure PPPs" (April 7, 2009)
• "The Wall Street Green Trading Summit" (April 1, 2009)
• "What the Stimulus Means for Renewables: Viewpoints of the Key Players" (March 18, 2009)
• Panelist at the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana (November 20, 2008)
• Federal Cleantech Funding (October 21, 2008)
• Practical Approaches to Carbon Developments (September 11, 2008)
• Frequent lecturer on energy, project finance, carbon regulation and public-private partnerships at universities and continuing education programs; webinars on renewable energy finance, renewable energy regulations, carbon finance matters

Professional Recognition

• Profiled as one of "Fortnightly's Top Utility Lawyers of 2011" in the field of Project Finance and Development "for outstanding service to the electric and gas industry" by Public Utilities Fortnightly (2011)
  
• The Best Lawyers in America (2006-2012)
• Who's Who in America (1990-2012)
• Who's Who in American Law (1990-2012)
• Who's Who in the World (1996-2012)
• Profiled as one of the leading Project Finance lawyers, The US Legal 500 (2010, 2011)
• Cogeneration Professional of the Year by the Association of Energy Engineers
• Leadership Award of The National Council for Public-Private Partnerships

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