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D. Cameron Prell       
Senior Counsel
2001 K Street N.W.
Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20006-1040
T: 202.857.1741
F: 202.828.3323
cprell@mcguirewoods.com
 

Mr. Prell advises clients on national and international energy, infrastructure and climate change risk management matters, energy and environmental markets, clean technology development and clean energy transactions.

Energy, Infrastructure & Climate Change

He counsels clients on energy, natural resource and climate change policy and regulatory matters affecting energy and environmental markets. Cameron has represented utilities, end-users, developers and investors throughout the energy supply chain and on federal energy and climate-related regulatory issues (DOE, FERC, EPA, CFTC, IRS, OPIC, DOD), and regularly advises private equity and venture capital funds on conventional and advanced energy technology regulatory issues, environmental market financial policy (e.g. green bank financing), technology commercialization and deployment (e.g., energy efficiency, hydrokinetic, water quality, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS)), natural gas production, and sustainable water and waste infrastructure partnerships.

Energy and Resource Management

Mr. Prell counsels corporate and public clients on risk management strategies and solutions to account for the myriad environmental and related financial risks associated with a changing environment and regulatory structure including enterprise and sustainability risk management programs and audits, water and waste management public-private partnerships, strategic policy solutions, environmental finance transactions, commodity forward contracting and swaps, emission reduction offset project development projects (biogas, international forestry or REDD+, programmatic energy efficiency, land use, and waste management), state renewable energy credit (REC) agreements, and low carbon technology and infrastructure development.

Sustainable Development

Mr. Prell has been project counsel for entities seeking to develop, construct and finance clean energy, avoided deforestation, and water infrastructure projects. He has negotiated and drafted loans and loan guarantees (World Bank), construction agreements, interconnection agreements, power purchase and sale agreements and financing agreements for biomass, waste-to-energy, wind, concentrated solar power, landfill gas-to-energy, combined heat and power, and energy efficiency upgrade projects. He also drafted construction and service agreements for local governments to procure, develop and finance sustainable infrastructure capital projects (e.g., clean water, emission retrofits, anaerobic digestion, landfill gas and solid waste management).


Practices & Industries
Articles
  • "The California program: prisoners of their own device?," Carbon Market North America, November 4, 2011
  • Co-author, "The Art of the Plausible - Prospects for Clean Energy Legislation in 2011," Public Utilities Fortnightly, April 2011
  • "California's Carbon Caveat Emptor," Environmental Finance, April 2011
  • Co-author, "2010 Annual Report," Energy and Environmental Markets & Finance Committee, February 2011
  • "Time for a low-carbon portfolio standard?" Environmental Finance, February 2010
  • "Federal Carbon Market Governance: So Who's Really (Going To Be) in Charge Here?" American Bar Association Energy Committees Newsletter, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, September 2009
  • "Border Adjustments in Climate Change Legislation," Joint Industry Group Newsletter, July 2009
  • Co-author, "Getting Into the Game: How POTWs Can Take Advantage of Carbon Trading," National Association of Clean Water Agencies, February 2009
  • "Looking out for the Ratepayers," Environmental Finance, October 2008
  • "The New Economic Feasibility of Sustainable Resource Recovery," Trends Newsletter, American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, November 2007
  • "Arbitration of Environmental Disputes that Cross National Boundaries," Arbitration of Environmental Disputes that Cross National Boundaries, Approaches to Conflict Resolution, Chapter of Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS); Developed under Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK, 2002

Speaking Engagements
  • "Clean Energy, The Roads Ahead on Cleantech Investment, Policy, and Financing," Washington, D.C., March 2012
  • "North American Energy and Climate Policies," Climate Finance Conference, London, England, November 15, 2011
  • Senior Practitioners Forum on Climate Change Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, November 6-8, 2011
  • "The Future for Environmental Finance North America," Environmental Markets Association's 15th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, October 28, 2011
  • "Solar PV Financing Structures and SREC Market Transactions," EUCI Workshop, Baltimore, Maryland, June 15, 2011
  • "International Linkage Possibilities for California Carbon Market," Climate Finance North America 2011, GreenX/New York Mercantile Exchange, New York City, New York, June 14, 2011
  • "Designing a Federal Clean Energy Standard: Policy Parameters, Metrics, and Market-Based Drivers Impacting the Debate," EUCI Web Conference, June 6, 2011
  • "Clean Energy Financing and Policy Strategies," Forum for Growth & Innovation Conference on Green Energy, Harvard Business School, May 2, 2011
  • "U.S. Carbon Market Update," 14th Annual EPA Landfill Methane Outreach Program Conference and Expo, Baltimore, Maryland, January 19, 2011
  • "State of the U.S. Offset Market," Carbon TradeEx America Conference, Chicago, Illinois, September 2010
  • "Biostorm: The 'Perfect Storm' of New Environmental and Energy Regulations Threatening Biomass Projects, Project-Based Carbon Management Strategies," EUCI National Webinar, September 2010
  • "Is Everything on the Table?" The Kerry-Lieberman Discussion Draft 'American Power Act,'" E-Session National Webinar, Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), June 2010
  • "Federal Energy and Climate Legislative Update," Joint American Council on Renewable Energy & American Bar Association Monthly Renewable Energy National Teleconference Series, April 2010
  • "Are We There Yet? Establishment of a Federal Carbon Market," SWANA North American Carbon Credit Summit, Reno, Nevada, April 2010
  • "Follow the Money: Sustainable Infrastructure Project Opportunities in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act," Fairfax County Economic Development Partnership Forum, McLean, Virginia, January 2010
  • "Carbon Market Oversight: Designing a System That Works," Environmental Markets Association, 2009 Fall Conference, Houston, Texas, October 2009
  • "International Maritime Transportation in a Carbon-Constrained United States," Virginia Maritime Institute, Breakfast Series at Nauticus, Norfolk, Virginia, October 2009
  • "3-Part Seminar on Climate Change Policy, Carbon Finance and Trade-Exposed Industries," American Association of Exporters and Importers, Washington, D.C., June 2009
  • "Climate Change Regulation and Carbon Finance Transactions," National Association of Regional Councils 2009 Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., February 2009
  • "Understanding the Essentials of Carbon Trading," The Commonwealth of Virginia Energy and Sustainability Conference, Virginia Sustainable Building Network, Richmond, Virginia, September 2008
  • "Climate Change Litigation," Carbon Finance World 2007, Chicago, Illinois, September 2007

Professional Affiliations
  • Climate Markets & Investments Association
    • Vice Chair, North American Energy and Climate Policy Committee, 2011-2012
  • American Bar Association
    • Vice Chair, International Environmental Committee, Section on International Law, 2011-2012
    • Vice Chair, Energy and Environmental Markets and Finance Committee, 2011-2012
  • Environmental Markets Association
  • National Association of Clean Water Agencies
  • American Biogas Council
  • Energy Bar Association
  • American Council on Renewable Energy
  • Environmental Law Institute
 

EDUCATION

The George Washington University School of Law, Washington, D.C., LL.M International Environmental Law, 2003

Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, J.D., 2000

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, B.A. Political Science, Concentration in International Economics, 1997

 
 

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