Professional Experience
Florence K.S. ("Flossie") Davis's practice focuses on transactions involving energy companies, including retail and wholesale power contracts, renewable energy credit ("REC") transactions, demand-side management, utility asset divestitures, and mergers and acquisitions, in each case encompassing both the regulatory matters and transactional work involved in such deals. Flossie has participated in state regulatory proceedings and proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. In addition, she has worked on a variety of issues involving public utility financings. As Senior Counsel with Constellation Energy from September 2007 through December 2008, Flossie provided primary legal support to the demand response and marketing departments, and was part of the legal team supporting the wholesale energy group, with a focus on renewable energy transactions.
Ms. Davis served as law clerk to the senior judges, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 1997-1998.
Representative Matters
· Representation of a competitive retail energy supplier in connection with creating contracts for new products, responding to RFPs for retail energy supply and negotiating with potential customers
· Regulatory compliance review for a retail energy supplier
· Negotiating and drafting demand response, renewable energy credit ("REC") and capacity contracts
· Negotiating and drafting power purchase agreements on behalf of buyers and sellers of renewable energy and associated RECs from landfill gas, solar, wind, biomass, and fuel cell generating facilities
· Divestiture of nuclear generating facilities pursuant to state electric restructuring legislation
· Representation of a large water company before the Connecticut Department of Public Utilities Control in connection with its merger with a foreign water company
· Served as counsel for the Information Policy and Billing Dispute Working Groups of the New England Power Pool
· Representation of a telecommunications company before the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control in connection with a corporate restructuring
· Assisted foreign public service companies in complying with state regulatory requirements
News, Publications & Presentations
· Moderator, "Transmission as a Facilitator of Alternative Energy Development: State and Federal Perspectives in the PJM, NYISO and ISO-New England Regions," Energy Bar Association's Renewable Energy Committee and Northeast Chapter, April 10, 2012
· Co-author, "Keeping Your Kilowatts Private," Public Utilities Fortnightly, April 2012
· Co-author, "How Green Is My Rooftop?" Connecticut Law Tribune, March 5, 2012
· Co-author, "Getting Smart About Grid Modernization," Connecticut Law Tribune, November 7, 2011
· Panelist, "Funding/Financing Considerations for Clean Energy Startups," New England Women in Energy and the Environment, December 2, 2010
· Co-author, "Looking Back, While Moving Forward," Connecticut Law Tribune, November 29, 2010
· Featured, "Women in the Law: High Achievers," Connecticut Law Tribune, September 2010
· "Is There a Phantom Tax Menace When Electric Utilities Divest Plants?," Public Utilities Fortnightly, November 1, 1999
· "Acquisition Premiums: A U-Turn in Merger Policy?," Public Utilities Fortnightly, May 15, 1999
Professional Affiliations
· Energy Bar Association, Smart Grid and Demand-Side Resources Committee, Vice-Chair, 2010-2011
· Connecticut Bar Association, Public Utilities Section
· American Bar Association, Section of Administrative Law
· Federal Energy Bar Association, Renewable Energy and Demand-Side Management Committee
Outside Interests
· Adjunct professor in the Lawyering Process program at the University of Connecticut School of Law (2003)