Thomas Kirby
2200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 500 West
Washington, D.C. 20037
Thomas’s principal area of practice is energy regulation and litigation. He advises natural gas and oil pipelines, electric utilities, and energy market participants in rate, certificate, and enforcement proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Experience Highlights
Representing affiliated multi-national energy companies and individuals in defending FERC allegations of natural gas market manipulation
Representing a major refined products (i.e., gasoline, diesel, jet fuel) pipeline at a three-month hearing on eighteen consolidated complaints alleging that its indexed and market-based rates were no longer just and reasonable under the Interstate Commerce Act
Representing a natural gas pipeline and winning dismissal on jurisdictional grounds of a complaint regarding unpaid reservation charges during the February 2021 Texas cold weather event
Representing a natural gas pipeline in consolidated rate-case proceedings under Section 4 and Section 5 of the Natural Gas Act
Obtaining an order from FERC declaring that it lacks jurisdiction over a small-scale liquified natural gas facility that would export LNG in containers via ocean-going cargo vessels
Advising an electric utility on its annual formula rate update and responding to formal challenges to the update
Conducting an internal investigation of trading activities and responding to multiple rounds of CFTC inquiries on behalf of a commodity pool operator
Credentials
- American University Washington College of Law, J.D. cum laude, 2013
- American University, B.A., Law and Society; Political Science, 2006
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Energy Law (Washington), 2024 and 2025
- District of Columbia
- InsightMay 30, 2024
- InsightApril 2, 2024
V&E Energy Update
- InsightOctober 27, 2023
V&E Energy Update
- Rankings & AwardsAugust 21, 2023
- Press ReleaseFebruary 21, 2023