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Winston P. Skinner
Winston P. Skinner
Counsel — Energy Regulation
Counsel — Energy Regulation

Winston P. Skinner

Winston P. Skinner
Austin

200 West 6th Street
Suite 2500
Austin, Texas 78701

Winston P. Skinner

Experience Highlights

  • Counsels sponsors, investors and lenders on Texas energy regulatory issues in various transactions involving solar, wind, and thermal generating facilities; battery energy storage systems; electric transmission and distribution facilities; natural gas local distribution companies; natural gas transmission pipelines; water pipelines; carbon dioxide (CO2) pipelines; and oil pipelines

  • Counsels energy infrastructure clients on the latest legislative and regulatory developments, including bill and rule drafting, involving the Texas Legislature, the PUCT, the RCT, and ERCOT

  • Represents applicants to the Texas Energy Fund for low-interest loans to develop additional natural gas-fired electric generation facilities throughout Texas

  • (PUCT) — Co-lead counsel before the PUCT and State Office of Administrative Hearings for various electric utilities’ applications for certificates of convenience and necessity (CCN) for numerous 345 and 138 kilovolt electric transmission lines throughout Texas

  • (RCT) – Lead counsel before the RCT in gas utility’s application for securitization recovery of extraordinary gas costs related to Winter Storm Uri event

  • (RCT) – Co-lead counsel for multiple gas transmission pipelines and local distribution companies in base rate proceedings

  • (ERCOT/PUCT) – Counseled private equity investor in transaction and regulatory registrations associated with purchasing gas-fired generation assets

  • (NERC/TRE) – Advises electric utilities on NERC compliance issues, including compliance audits by, and self-reports and self-logs submitted to, TRE

  • (PUCT) — Represents electric utility clients in various CCN, rulemaking, complaint, and rate proceedings

  • (Regulatory Commission of Alaska) — Trial counsel for gas utility in base rate proceeding 

  • (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) — Represented various natural gas pipelines in Section 311 rate proceedings 

Credentials

  • Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 2011
  • Louisiana State University, B.A., political science summa cum laude, 2008 (Phi Beta Kappa)
  • Judicial clerk for The Honorable James J. Brady, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, 2011–2012
  • Chambers USA, Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (Oil & Gas)(Texas), 2023 and 2024; “Up and Coming” in Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (Electricity)(Texas), 2024
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), Energy Law (Dallas), 2022–2025
  • Juvenile Pro Bono Award 2013, co-recipient of firm-wide pro bono award for work representing clients before the Dallas County Truancy Courts
  • Member: American Bar Association; Texas Bar Association
  • Member: Texas Utilities Lawyers; Energy Bar Association – Texas Chapter
  • Texas; Louisiana (inactive)