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Thompson Coburn’s utility attorneys understand the forces that are changing the energy supply industries. Our utility partners have decades of combined experience in this highly specialized area of law. They provide comprehensive, interdisciplinary legal services to a variety of suppliers and purchasers, including municipal and cooperative utility systems, municipal joint action agencies, gas systems and local distribution companies, and renewable energy companies.

Our firm represents utility and non-utility parties in formal adjudications before federal and state regulatory commissions and courts, as well as in the various types of informal stakeholder procedures that have become common in organized markets operated by regional transmission organizations.

Our attorneys have analyzed numerous clients’ compliance with electric utility reliability standards that are mandatory and enforceable under the Federal Power Act.  This includes drafting and assisting with the implementation of internal compliance programs, procedures and guidelines designed to ensure ongoing compliance with the new standards; developing and presenting customized training programs related to the standards; assisting clients with preparation for compliance audits; and representing clients in communications with entities responsible for compliance auditing and enforcement.

In addition, attorneys in our Unmanned Aircraft Systems practice can provide counsel to utilities on the expanded use of UAS (or drones) in the industry.

For more than 80 years, Thompson Coburn has provided the high-caliber legal services and counsel our clients demand to achieve their most critical business goals. Throughout our history, we have been guided by our philosophy of giving our clients straightforward, practical and economical solutions to their legal challenges and business demands, no matter how complex. We put this philosophy into practice every day, for every client, whether a multinational corporation or private individual. 

With 380 lawyers and 40 practice areas, we serve clients throughout the United States and abroad. Whether helping with an employment issue, navigating a complex acquisition, or defending a product or service in litigation, we have the knowledge and resources to meet any legal requirement.  Offices: Chicago, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Southern Illinois, Washington, D.C. 

Additional Service Areas

• Bankruptcy and Reorganization
• Corporate Finance & Securities
• Corporate Governance & Compliance
• Cybersecurity
• Environmental Law
• General Corporate
• Government Contracts
• Health Care
• Human Resources
• Immigration
• Information Technology
• Intellectual Property
• International Trade & Commerce
• Litigation
• Lobbying & Policy
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Nonprofit and Charitable Organizations

Utility Financial Solutions is committed to maintaining our leadership role in the utility industry through listening to the needs of our clients, staying current on new developments and incorporating feedback from industry professionals. Their services are structured to help ensure complete client satisfaction and a commitment that our services and recommendations are independent assesments of your utility's financial condition.

Avant has been providing utility management and consulting services to clients nationwide for over thirty years.  Our service offerings include strategic planning, organizational assessments, power supply planning, and cost of service studies.  We manage several municipal power agencies, which has allowed us to build a staff of utility professionals with deep experience across many functional areas.  We pride ourselves on delivering clear, concise communications to clients and facilitating discussions of complex energy issues across a broad array of stakeholders.

As a leading provider of web based energy information services, Automated Energy has been working with public power providers since 1999. We turn your meter data into a branded daily energy information service from your web site designed to serve the growing information needs of your commercial and industrial customers. Because we are hardware neutral we can work with basic IDR metering or the most sophisticated smart meter - important flexibility in today’s rapidly changing world of metering technology.

Our Load Profiler service is uniquely tailored to communicate load profiling data to your customers. It goes beyond just providing a load profile tracking kWh and kW. Your customers will have access to your rates to see how their load directly affects their bill along with a unique “slider bar” that allows them to conduct “what-if” analysis to better manage their demand and efficiency initiatives. Our customized factors section is where individual needs are met with tracking tools like temperature, degree days and humidity that may also be affecting loads. Our reporting and analysis tools are easy to use and very effective allowing you and your customers to report target areas, trends or communicate a message on efficiency or budgetary goals.

Our service is scalable to meet your utility's financial and operational goals. We can serve one meter in a service territory or tens of thousands. Our pricing structure makes it easy for the smallest utility to benefit from our services and implementation is a snap.

COMMONWEALTH is an EC&M magazine 2017 Top 10 Electrical Design Firm serving utilities, independent power producers, government, industry, and some of the world's most prestigious academic, research, and healthcare institutions.  We are committed to influencing and shaping the secure energy future and making a powerful and positive difference in the world.  We do that by achieving project success for our clients and giving back to the communities in which we live and work.

As consultants, Commonwealth knows that each client is unique, and that each project has a different set of challenges to be addressed. Our leadership in the organizations that set industry standards, combined with our extensive technical experience with hundreds of utility standards and procedures, results in the development and delivery of innovative solutions to our clients’ problems.

Commonwealth’s strength is our people.  We hire top talent and foster an environment of continuous learning where they can meet professional goals and deliver increasing value to our clients.  We encourage professional licensure and participation in organizations such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the Edison Electric Institute.  We are proud to be 100% employee-owned and -managed.

Commonwealth’s complete package of services for power generation and power delivery facilities includes: owner’s engineering services; program management; electrical systems analyses; planning; mechanical, civil/structural, and electrical engineering; licensing; land acquisition services; drone services; and construction support.

HISTORY

Commonwealth is proud of its deep roots dating back to 1888 as innovators in the electric power industry.  It started with two pioneering brothers from Michigan with an interest in arc lighting and the transmission of electricity generated by hydro power, and eventually became part of the behemoth known as Commonwealth & Southern Corporation.  Commonwealth Associates was reestablished as a employee-owned engineering and consulting firm in 1988.  Thirty years later, Commonwealth's staff of approximately 270 professionals represents one of the most skilled, experienced technical resources available to analyze, plan, design, and construct electrical power projects.

LOCATIONS

Commonwealth services clients conveniently with offices coast-to-coast.  In addition to our Mid-Michigan headquarters, Commonwealth has the following offices: Lancaster (PA); Columbus (OH); Atlanta (GA); Spokane, and Seattle (WA).