Carrie Collier-Brown is a regulatory and administrative law attorney with a focus on Texas energy markets, energy regulations and administrative litigation. With her deep understanding of the Texas wholesale and retail electric markets and utility regulatory environment at the Texas PUC and ERCOT, Carrie provides clients with practical solutions in agency proceedings, corporate transactions and civil litigation.
Carrie Collier-Brown is a regulatory and administrative law attorney with a focus on Texas energy markets, energy regulations and administrative litigation. With her deep understanding of the Texas wholesale and retail electric markets and utility regulatory environment at the Texas PUC and ERCOT, Carrie provides clients with practical solutions in agency proceedings, corporate transactions and civil litigation.
In her Texas PUC practice, Carrie represents electric utilities, electric cooperatives, water utilities, generators, retail electric providers and other clients in a broad range of regulatory and administrative litigation matters, including rate applications, mergers and acquisitions, Certificate of Convenience and Necessity (CCN) proceedings, generator interconnections, certification and registration, regulatory compliance and enforcement and policy rulemakings.
On the federal energy level, Carrie has advised electric utilities and generation companies on compliance with Qualifying Facility (QF) certification, NERC reliability standards, competition-related issues in RTO and ISO markets and Open Access Transmission Tariffs compliance matters at FERC.
Before practicing law, she worked for the Texas Legislature and was on staff with the Texas PUC where she led numerous rulemakings to implement the competitive retail electric market under Senate Bill 7, the 1999 legislation introducing retail customer choice in Texas.
Carrie's experience includes the representation of:
Public Utility Commission of Texas
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Texas District Court and Third Court of Appeals