Caroline Sinegar advises developers, utilities, investor-owned utilities, power producers and energy investors on energy, infrastructure, regulatory and policy matters across the US energy industry. She assists clients with transactions spanning the development, financing, acquisition, construction and operation of power and renewable energy projects — covering solar, wind, battery energy storage and traditional thermal assets — at both utility-scale and distributed scales.

Caroline’s transactional experience includes the negotiation and drafting a wide range of project and M&A agreements, including purchase and sale agreements, build‑transfer agreements, EPC contracts, operation and maintenance agreements, asset management agreements, shared facilities agreements, equipment procurement and supply contracts and engineering and consulting services agreements. She also advises clients on various offtake and service arrangements, including agreements for commodity and energy nomination and electric service agreements.

She also has experience counseling clients on federal and state regulatory matters, including Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and US Department of Energy compliance, RTO/ISO market rules, transmission access and interconnection queue management for major power and renewable projects. Her regulatory work includes drafting comments in significant rulemaking proceedings, representing developers in generation interconnection proceedings before FERC, drafting and submitting oil and natural gas tariff filings and preparing applications for authority to export electricity across the US-Canada and US-Mexico borders.

During law school, she served on The George Washington Law Review, and completed internships with the US Department of Energy’s Office of Hearings and Appeals and the Center for Justice Innovation. 

Before law school, Caroline served at the South Carolina Department of Administration and as a congressional intern to a Member of Congress.