Mr. Didriksen is a partner in the firm's US Energy and Utilities Practice Group. He represents major energy industry companies and other large corporate clients, primarily on large-scale transactional matters. His experience includes structuring transactions for both regulated and unregulated companies in the electric power and gas industries. This has included purchases and sales of numerous power plants (including natural gas, nuclear, coal, wind and hydro-electric facilities), power project development transactions (including large-scale utility wind farms, natural gas-fired cogeneration plants and merchant transmission lines), acquisitions and sales of energy assets through bankruptcy-driven auctions, negotiation of "structured" wholesale and retail power contracts (including tolling agreements, long-term power purchase contracts and standard offer load contracts) and matters involving wholesale and retail power trading and marketing. Mr. Didriksen also works with the firm's Corporate Department on matters that have included mergers and acquisitions (M&A), cash tender offers and initial public offerings. Selected Activities · Speaker, Wind Power Finance & Investment Summit 2008 Representative Matters · Puget Sound Energy, Inc., in the development and construction of Unit 4 of the Lower Baker River Hydroelectric Project, an approximately 30 MW hydroelectric generating plant to be built on the Lower Baker River adjacent to an existing facility · Puget Sound Energy, Inc., in the development and construction of the Lower Snake River Wind Project, an approximately 1,500 MW wind powered electric generating facility to be constructed in Columbia and Garfield Counties, Washington. Recently completed the contracts for Phase I of this project, including the largest purchase of Siemens wind turbines to date for onshore delivery to the U.S. market · Puget Sound Energy, Inc., in the re-development of the Snoqualmie Falls Hydroelectric Project, an historic run-of-river hydroelectric generating plant (the world's first completely underground generating facility) originally commissioned in 1898 · Puget Sound Energy, Inc., in the negotiation of a master service contract with Vestas Americas to provide service and maintenance for the entire PSE fleet of Vestas wind turbines (totaling approximately 430 MW) · PPL, in connection with the Holtwood Expansion Project, involving the development and construction of a 130 MW expansion to the Holtwood hydroelectric generating facility in Holtwood, Pennsylvania · PPL, in connection with the Montana Rainbow Redevelopment Project, involving the development and construction of a 60 MW expansion to the Rainbow hydroelectric generating facility in Great Falls, Montana · PPL, in connection with contracting for engineering services in respect of the construction of the Bell Bend Nuclear Facility · Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, in structuring a consortium to bid on the privatization of the metered parking system for the City of Chicago · Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, in structuring a consortium to bid on the privatization of Chicago Midway Airport · Optim Energy, LLC, in the development and construction of Cedar Bayou Unit 4, a 550 MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant jointly owned with NRG that went into commercial operations in the summer of 2009 · Suez Environnement, in its acquisition from AECOM of various assets in the United States and China relating to the Earth Tech business (which was simultaneously acquired by AECOM from Tyco) · PPL, in connection with the entry into of a power purchase agreement (as buyer) to purchase the output from the Springfield Power Project biomass generating facility owned by Marubeni · PPL, in connection with the development of, and sale of the power output from, the Moretown landfill gas project located in Moretown, Vermont · Puget Sound Energy, Inc., in the development and construction of the Whiskey Ridge Wind Project, a 44 MW expansion to the existing 228 MW Wild Horse Wind Project located in Kittitas County, Washington · PPL, in its acquisition from Bear Energy, LP of the off-take rights (via a tolling agreement) to the Ironwood gas-fired combined cycle generating facility · Puget Sound Energy, Inc., in its $120 million acquisition of the 275 MW Goldendale Energy Center from Calpine Corporation, via Calpine's bankruptcy process · Foster Wheeler, in its supply of boiler island equipment to the Longview Project, a 695 MW supercritical pulverized coal-fired power plant located in West Virginia · Consumers Energy, in its sale of the 798 MW Palisades Nuclear Power Plant to a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation · Interstate Power and Light in connection with its sale of the 598 MW nuclear power plant known as the Duane Arnold Energy Center to Florida Power and Light Energy · General Electric, in connection with the Linden VFT merchant transmission facility, the first successful auction of merchant transmission capacity in the United States, which provides 300 MW of new transmission capacity into New York City · Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, in its acquisition of interests in four toll roads - the South Bay Expressway, Chicago Skyway, Indiana Toll Road and Dulles Greenway · Puget Sound Energy, Inc., in its development and construction of an 8 MW expansion to the existing 150 MW Hopkins Ridge Wind Project located in Columbia County, Washington · Merrill Lynch, as underwriters counsel for the initial public offering of common stock of Darwin Professional Underwriters, Inc. · Puget Sound Energy, Inc., in its acquisition, development and construction of the Wild Horse Wind Project, a 228 MW wind powered electric generating facility located in Kittitas County, Washington · Puget Sound Energy, Inc., in its acquisition, development and construction of the Hopkins Ridge Wind Project, a 150 MW wind powered electric generating facility located in Columbia County, Washington · AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, in its $500M initial public offering of common stock on the New York Stock Exchange · Puget Sound Energy, Inc., in its acquisition of a 49.85 percent undivided interest in the 249 MW Frederickson combined cycle gas-fired power plant from a subsidiary of EPCOR Utilities, Inc. · Enron North America Corp., in the bankruptcy auction of its retail and wholesale trading assets in the western United States · Enron North America Corp., in the purchase of a 40 percent interest in Sithe's 1,040 MW Independence Project, a gas-fired cogeneration facility in Oswego, New York · East Coast Power, now a subsidiary of General Electric, in the expansion of a 715 MW cogeneration facility located in Linden, New Jersey, which added an approximately 180 MW truncated combined cycle power plant to the existing facility · United American Energy Corp., in connection with its acquisition of the 132 MW Mecklenburg coal-fired power plant Industries Global Construction Utilities, Power and Pipelines Renewable and Clean Energy |