Fredrick Wilson

Fred was previously a partner at a large U.S. law firm. Earlier in his career, he served in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), as a trial attorney in the Office of Administrative Litigation and as legal advisor to a Commissioner. 

Prior to entering the legal field, Fred gained technical and energy industry experience as a transmission planning engineer and a protection and control engineer. 

• Named to Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch for Energy Law, 2024-2025
  
• Selected to participate in the Fellows Program of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), 2024
  
• Named to Legal 500 United States for Energy Regulation: Electric Power and Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power, 2023

• Member, American Association of Blacks in Energy
  
• Member, National Bar Association
  
• Member, Energy Bar Association
  
   

• Speaker, “The Challenges and Opportunities of Interconnection and Transmission of Renewable Energy,” Energy Law Insights, June 23, 2023
  
• Panelist, “Diversity Lab: Tools for Increasing the Diversity in the Practice of Law at Firms and In-House Legal Departments,” EEI’s Fall Legal Conference, October 13, 2022
  
• Co-author, “Scaling Transmission to Bring U.S. Offshore Wind to the Grid,” Pratt’s Energy Law Report, October 2021

• Represented a North American energy infrastructure company, in its all-cash acquisition of an electric utility company.
  
• Advised an investor-owned utility in its successful effort to obtain FERC approval to establish an affiliate procurement company to efficiently manage tax liability.
  
• Advised a generation and transmission cooperative in its transition from a stated rate to a formula rate for all-requirements service provided to its distribution cooperative members.
  
• Represented an independent power producer, with respect to federal and state regulatory approval requirements, in its sale to a leading investment company and a consortium of investors.
  
• Represented a large Canadian publicly owned distribution utility, with respect to federal and state regulatory approvals and other issues, in its acquisition of a leading electricity transmission company.
  
• Represented a bank in the acquisition of a natural gas-fired, combined-cycle electric-generating facility from an owner and operator of a natural gas-fired power plant.
  
• Represented a generation and transmission cooperative in disputes involving its contract termination payment tariff before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
  
• Advised corporate offtakers in negotiation of both virtual and physical power purchase agreements for wind and solar resources in U.S. energy markets.
  
• Advised generators and energy marketers on obtaining market-based rate authority and ongoing compliance obligations flowing therefrom.
  
• Advised various acquiring entities or lenders to acquiring entities on conducting due diligence related to the acquisition of generation and transmission assets.
  
• Advised registered entities on North American Electric Reliability compliance obligations, including self-reports and audit preparation, and represented in proceedings involving alleged violations.
  
• Represented both transmission and generation owners in proceedings establishing the annual transmission revenue requirement for reactive supply and voltage control service.

*Fredrick advised on some of these matters prior to joining Willkie.