Rowland & Moore LLP

Electric Experience

Text Box: Steve Moore and Tom Rowland were active participants in the long running litigation over Commonwealth Edison Company’s nuclear generating plants. Starting in 1983, when Edison requested a rate increase for its just completed LaSalle plant, through the settlement in 1993 that resulted in refunds of $1.3 billion and a rate reduction of $350 million, Steve Moore and Tom Rowland worked on the series of ICC cases and court appeals involving Edison‘s LaSalle, Bryon and Braidwood nuclear plants. The eventual refund and rate reduction were the result of unrelenting pressure of Steve Moore and Tom Rowland and several other public advocates, resulting in a string of Illinois Supreme Court victories reversing ICC actions favorable to Edison. Steve Moore and Tom Rowland also successfully appealed Edison rate design changes and were active in the least cost utility planning process in Illinois. Steve Moore participated in the effort of the Sears Tower to cogenerate its own power over Edison’s objection, has worked on ICC cases implementing the recent Illinois law deregulating electric supply, has worked on numerous transmission line siting proceedings, and has assisted customers in their disputes with electric utilities. Rowland & Moore LLP are currently working on the implementation of the electric deregulation laws enacted throughout the Midwest that allow alternative retail electric suppliers to compete with incumbent public utilities. That work includes work for Alternative Retail Energy Suppliers and agents, brokers and consultants needing to obtain or maintain their state licenses and work on behalf of customers using alternative supply of electricity. Rowland & Moore LLP is the Illinois representative of the Retail Electric Supply Association (RESA), which is a national organization that includes some of the largest alternative electric suppliers in the country.