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Krystal Tapper
Krystal Tapper
Associate — Energy Regulation
Associate — Energy Regulation

Krystal Tapper

Washington, D.C.

2200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 500 West
Washington, D.C. 20037

Krystal Tapper

Experience Highlights

  • Assisting natural gas pipelines in project development, including obtaining certificates of public convenience and necessity and related appeals

  • Assisting a natural gas pipeline regarding NGA section 3 authorizations and Presidential Permits issued by FERC to permit construction of natural gas pipeline facilities across the United States-Mexico border

  • Assisting natural gas pipeline companies in NGA section 4 general rate cases and NGA section 5 investigations and in matters of compliance, standards of conduct, and tariff implementation

  • Representing a regional transmission organization (RTO) in capacity market reforms for generating resources capacity to sustain and predict operation such that the resource will be reliably available to provide energy and reserves in an emergency condition following Winter Storm Elliott

  • Representing an RTO in an inter-regional coordination to regulate market-based and traditional congestion management methodologies to ensure that parallel flows and impacts are recognized and controlled in a manner that consistently ensures system reliability

  • Representing a natural gas pipeline in a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the Regional Energy Access Expansion Project

  • Assisting a natural gas pipeline in authorizing the operation and construction of the Border Facilities that will not constitute a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment

Credentials

  • American University Washington College of Law, J.D., 2020
  • Florida State University, B.A. in Political Science and International Affairs, 2016
  • Attorney-Advisor, Office of General Counsel – Energy Projects, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (2020–2022)
  • Legal Intern, Office of Enforcement, Division of Investigations, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (2019)
  • Energy Bar Association
  • Women’s Energy Network
  • District of Columbia
  • Florida
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit