Kimberly B. Frank

Kimberly Frank co-leads the firm’s global Power practice group and focuses her electric regulatory practice on representing clients in matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state utility commissions, as well as transactions in the US market.

Kimberly’s clients include investor-owned electric utilities and electric cooperatives, large consumers, and government agencies. She represents clients before FERC in contested proceedings, administrative hearings and settlements, rulemakings, technical conferences, and investigations. She advises clients in developing strategies for litigation and prepares complaints, protests, comments and other pleadings filed with the agency. She works regularly with economists, engineers, accountants, financial analysts, and other electric utility industry experts.

Kimberly helps clients navigate the complex rules of the FERC-regulated regional wholesale markets, assisting to evaluate and advocate for rule changes in the energy, capacity, and ancillary services markets. She has represented clients in numerous proceedings before FERC, including capacity and energy market rules in the regional markets, transmission and generation rate cases, formula rate design, transmission planning, and cost allocation.

Kimberly counsels clients developing renewable energy facilities, regulated by FERC on Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA), and Federal Power Act (FPA) compliance. She assists clients with interconnections to distribution and transmission systems and with regulatory compliance matters related to federal- and state-regulated electric power transactions.

Before her legal career, Kimberly was research faculty with a law and economics think tank in the Department of Economics, University of Maryland College Park.