William D. Booth

Partner

With more than 25 years working in the energy industry, William Booth has a wide range of experience, including 12 years of on-site operating experience at a 1,000 MW nuclear generating station and over twelve years of experience as an energy attorney.

William has advised investor-owned utilities and their affiliates, public power entities, transmission-dependent utilities, an independent scheduling administrator, municipalities, and an independent system operator on all aspects of FERC regulation.  He has extensive experience in advising clients on operations within the structure of Independent System Operators (ISO) and Regional Transmission Organizations (RTO), including advice on day-ahead and real-time energy and ancillary service markets and locational marginal pricing issues in the New York ISO, the New England ISO, the Midwest ISO, and PJM, and on efforts to create the Grid Florida RTO.  He was instrumental in the design and development of the Arizona Independent Scheduling Administrator proposal and the New York Independent System Operator, Inc.

William has advised clients on compliance with the standards of conduct, FERC's RTO orders, open access transmission service matters (including conducting an in-house audit), EQR requirements, market behavior rules, code of conduct, and reliability standards.  He has counseled investor-owned utilities and affiliated companies on the application of the FERC's affiliate transaction rules, the interconnection of generators with utility transmission systems, and the transfer of FERC-jurisdictional facilities.  He has extensive experience in drafting open access transmission tariffs, reciprocity tariffs, interconnection agreements, scheduling agreements, incentive rate filings, market-based rate application, settlement agreements, operating agreements, and complaints.  For clients in the New England market, William drafted revisions to local network open access tariffs to comport with revisions to the New England tariff.  In late 2009, William was invited by the United Nations to counsel several East African nations on development of the East Africa Power Pool.

Prior to joining SNR Denton, William was a partner with Bruder, Gentile and Marcoux, LLP, an energy law firm in Washington, DC.  He also practiced energy law in the New York office of Huber Lawrence and Abell, where he assisted marketers in developing marketing and settlement procedures used to perform energy trading.  He also advised power traders and utilities on power marketing activity, generator auctions, market based rates, futures, options, contracts for differences, transmission access and industry restructuring.

Prior to his law practice, William was a radiological engineer employed with the New York Power Authority.  He also served as a member of the United States Navy, where he worked in the engineering department on board the USS Baltimore, a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine.

William received his J.D. from Pace Law School, where he was a member of the Law Review.  He also holds a Bachelor of Science from Manhattan College, where he was a recipient of the Paul R. Simon Award for Academic Achievement.  He graduated in the top five percent of the class from the Naval Nuclear Power School in 1980.

Organizations

• Director, Energy Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association

Publications

•  “Decommissioning: Will the Money Be There?”  Radiation Protection Management, Vol. 13m No. 3, May-June 1996 

Presentations

•  "Order No. 1000; Are We There Yet," Northeast Power Coordinating Council, Boston, MA, December 14, 2011
• “Power Pool Organization, Structure and Operations,” Eastern Africa Power Pool Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 2009
• “Investment Opportunities in the Energy Sector,” SBA Presentation, February 2009
• “Transmission Infrastructure: FERC’s Back-Stop Siting Authority,” Chicago CLE Seminar, June 2008
• “FERC’s Transmission Incentive Pricing- A Policy in Transition,” EXNET Conference, March 2008
• “Riding the Wave of New Transmission Construction: FERC Permits and Rate Incentives,” EXNET Conference, March 2007
• “A Report On Market Implementation Issues-We Report-You Decide!” with William Bourbonnais, vice president, transmission, WPS Resource Corporation and Charlie Severance, manager, supply and wholesale services, Wisconsin Public Services Corporation, EXNET Conference, March 2006
• “Electric Reliability:  Legislative and Regulatory Initiatives,” September 2005
• “How to Build a Regional and Super-Regional Transmission Expansion Process in the Midwest (A Work in Progress),” EXNET Conference, March 2005
• “Midwest ISO-Reactive Power Compensation For Independent Power Producers,” Edison Electric Institute Task Force Meeting, October 2004
• “FERC’s Compliance Initiatives:  Controlling Behavior in a Deregulated Market,” EXNET Conference, March 2004
• “Corporate Financing:  Finding the Right Balance for Preserving Financial Viability of Vertically Integrated Companies,” Edison Electric Institute Task Force Meeting, May 2003
• “Review of Top Ten Standard Market Design Issues: FERC Priorities, Major Problems and Potential Outcomes,” EXNET Conference, March 2003
• “Implications of the Standard Market Design,” NOPR Bruder, Gentile and Marcoux, LLP, September 2002

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