Ilia Levitine
Partner
Duane Morris LLP
Suite 1000
505 9th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20004-2166
USA

Phone: +1 202 776 5218
Fax: +1 202 478 2161
Email: ILevitine@duanemorris.com

Ilia Levitine practices in the area of energy and resources. For more than fifteen years, he has advised electric and gas utility companies, regional transmission organizations (RTOs), independent power producers, renewable energy resources and industrial customers on a wide range of issues involving the Federal Power Act, the Natural Gas Act, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and many other federal and state energy statutes and regulations. As an experienced FERC practitioner, Mr. Levitine has successfully represented clients in numerous FERC rate and complaint cases, evidentiary hearings, settlement conferences, rulemakings and hydrolicensing proceedings, including on review before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He also has been involved in state utility matters, including assistance to state energy regulators with reviewing rate cases and developing cutting-edge regulations.

Mr. Levitine has deep knowledge of competitive electricity markets. He represents the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc., the first FERC-certified RTO, in complex regulatory and judicial proceedings involving the multistate transmission grid and sophisticated energy and operating reserve markets managed by this client. He also assists clients with various regulatory issues arising in other RTO market footprints, such as PJM Interconnection and ISO New England. Mr. Levitine is well familiar with all major FERC initiatives involving organized electricity markets, transmission pricing and cost allocation, electric reliability standards, open access reform and generator interconnection and procedures, and has represented clients in connection with many of these seminal rulemakings and in related proceedings. Throughout his career, he has advised virtually every class of electric industry player, including renewable, "clean energy" and hydro resources, on many contractual, energy market, open access and other regulatory and transactional issues, such as market-based rate authority, QF/EWG status, power purchase agreement (PPA) structuring and negotiation and generator interconnection agreements and procedures.

On the natural gas side, Mr. Levitine represents a well-known developer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in FERC LNG terminal pre-filing and certification proceedings. He also counsels clients on various LNG certification and compliance issues arising under the Deepwater Port Act of 1974. In addition, Mr. Levitine advised on various interstate pipeline and storage certification matters and on open access transportation issues.

To complement his FERC practice, Mr. Levitine has been active in the international energy field. In the recent years, he has advised national energy regulators, market and system operators and government-owned utilities in Vietnam, the Republic of the Philippines, Indonesia, Canada and the Russian Federation on issues ranging from energy markets reform to PPA restructuring and renegotiation. Representative matters include several energy market reform projects funded by the World Bank in Southeast Asia and Russia, a high-profile effort to renegotiate a dozen of Build-Own-Transfer PPAs for a developing country and an international arbitration involving imports of electric power into the United States.

Areas of Practice

• Energy Law
• Public Utilities Law
• International Law

Professional Activities

• The Bar Association of the District of Columbia
• Energy Bar Association

Admissions

• District of Columbia
• New Jersey
• U.S. Court of Appeals (D.C. Circuit)

Education

• Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, M.P.A., 1996
• Washington and Lee University School of Law, J.D., 1995
• Guilford College, B.S., high honors, 1992

Experience

• Duane Morris LLP
  - Partner, 2006-present
  - Associate, 2004-2005
• CMS Cameron McKenna, Washington, D.C.
  - Associate, 2002-2003
• McKenna Long & Aldridge, Washington, D.C.
  - Associate, 1998-2002
• Travis & Gooch, Washington, D.C.
  - Associate, 1996-1998

Selected Publications

• Co-author, "HVDC Transmission: A Path to the Future?," The Electricity Journal, May 2010
• Co-author, "The Mobile-Sierra Doctrine, Part Deux," Public Utilities Fortnightly, March 2007
• Co-author, "Life Along the Potomac: What Federal Regulators Should Do to Ensure Security, Reliability, and Cleaner Air in Our Nation's Capital," Public Utilities Fortnightly, September 2006
• Author, "The Main Principles of Electric Reliability Regulation in the U.S.," Energorynok, January 2006
• Co-author, "Long-Term Power Purchase Agreements in a Restructured Electricity Industry," Wake Forest Law Review, 2005.
• Author, "Russia launches a competitive electricity market," Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence, December 2003
• Author, "In the aftermath of the Russian electricity law: establishing the new regulatory and contractual framework for competitive power markets," Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence, July 2003

Selected Speaking Engagements

• Speaker, System Operators and Electricity Markets Conference, Moscow, September 2007
• Speaker, Electric Reliability Regulation seminar sponsored by the Russian System Operator, Moscow, November 2005