Gregg D. Ottinger
Gregg D. Ottinger
Partner
GDO@duncanallen.com
Duncan & Allen
1575 Eye Street NW, Ste 300
Washington, DC 20005
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Fax: 202-289-8450
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Gregg practices in the areas of energy supply and natural resources development. He represents numerous municipalities and consumer-owned electric utilities in their
power supply planning, contracting, project development, transmission permitting,
and regulatory proceedings, and in preparing for competition and restructuring in
the electric utility industry.
In addition to power sales and purchase agreements, transmission service contracts,
and contracts with industrial customers, Gregg has helped negotiate and draft contracts
that include the creation of a power pool, the sale of power from "Qualifying Facilities"
under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, and the first major interconnection
agreement in the U.S. to provide unbundled services and in which a "captive" electric
utility obtained transmission access to competitive bulk power markets.
He has assisted
hydroelectric project developers with FERC permitting and licensing and served as
counsel of record in a successful U.S. Supreme Court proceeding. He has also assisted
cities in establishing non-profit, municipally owned electric systems, helped cities
negotiate utility franchises to provide lower cost service to local residents and
industries, and drafted rules and regulations for municipal utilities.
Gregg has published several articles and given numerous speeches on various aspects
of natural resources development and competition in the electric utility industry.
At Georgetown University Law Center, he served as student Editor In Chief of The
Tax Lawyer, the journal of the American Bar Association's Section of Taxation.
Prior to law school, Gregg studied as an exchange student in Aberdeen, Scotland.
After completing graduate studies in mathematics, he spent three years as a Peace
Corps Volunteer in Ghana, teaching calculus and other mathematics courses.
- Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Supreme Court
of the United States
- Education
- Wabash College (B.A. 1972)
- University of Kansas (M.A. 1974)
- Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 1980)
- Professional Associations and Memberships
- American, and Federal Energy Bar (Chairman, Hydroelectric Regulation
Committee, 1991-92) Associations
- Panel of the American Arbitration Association