Kat Gamache

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

Caileen Kateri Gamache (“Kat”) is an energy projects lawyer based in Houston and co-head of the energy regulatory team at NRF. Kat works with project developers, investors and commercial and industrial consumers, regulators, and utilities to identify and find solutions to complex energy transition regulatory issues, develop ideas into operational projects, draft and negotiate material development, revenue and finance contracts and close deals. She excels at counselling clients on the application of regulations and incentives to transformative energy technologies and drafting offtake and other revenue contracts with flexibility to adapt to rapid changes in the energy sector. Her representative experience includes: structuring and drafting revenue contracts for multiple behind-the-meter renewable energy to green hydrogen projects in Texas; advising and drafting contracts for a start-up company that plans to use biomass to make hydrogen to supply transportation fuels to the California LCFS market; represent major US renewable energy developers in drafting and negotiating physical and virtual power purchase agreements for wind, solar, solar + storage, and stand-alone storage projects; represent multiple organizations in the business of computationally intensive processes in structuring behind-the-meter arrangements and drafting and negotiating energy supply, energy hedging, and renewable energy credit agreements; represented a cogeneration facility owned by a large oil and gas company in a case of first impression under the qualifying facility provisions of PURPA; regulatory counsel in representation of the lenders in connection with the approximately $290 million financing of the Block Island Wind Farm, a 30 MW project off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island.