Nate Carrier is an associate in the firm’s Power practice group. Nate focuses his practice on both transactional and litigation matters in the energy regulatory space. He assists clients from numerous sectors of the electric industry, including independent power producers, large industrial electricity consumers (e.g., data centers and crypto operations), public utilities, electric cooperative utilities, holding companies, and trade associations. He provides counsel on laws and regulations governing development of electric generation and transmission projects, revenues for transmission services and wholesale and retail electricity, and compliance obligations of regulated entities.
Prior to joining the firm, Nate was the legal advisor to a commissioner at the Illinois Commerce Commission. In this role, he advised his commissioner on matters involving cost-of-service rate cases, prudence review of utility investments, rider reconciliations, rate design policymaking, transmission certificates of public convenience and necessity, multi-year integrated grid plans and rate plans, and rulemaking for the state's renewable energy credit program. Nate also clerked for two administrative law judges at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Office of Administrative Law Judges. While at FERC, Nate assisted his judges in conducting settlement conferences and writing orders and initial decisions for matters arising under the Federal Power Act, Natural Gas Act, and Interstate Commerce Act.
