Nikhil Vijaykar

Partner

Nikhil represents community choice aggregation providers, clean energy companies, data center and transportation industry clients, and advocacy organizations in administrative litigation, rulemakings and other regulatory proceedings. Nikhil’s practice includes litigating electric and gas rate cases; energy efficiency and demand response cases; net metering and community renewables cases; and transportation electrification cases, among other contested proceedings. Nikhil counsels clients on a range of energy and utility law issues, as well as the development and implementation of policies advancing distributed energy resource deployment.

Practice Areas

Admissions

State Bar of California
State Bar of Illinois

Representative Work

Lead counsel representing the solar and storage industry in numerous net metering and electric tariff proceedings before the Illinois Commerce Commission.
Lead counsel representing advocacy organizations in gas utility rate and other related proceedings at the Illinois Commerce Commission and the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities.
Secured reasonable terms and conditions of service for data center industry client in ratemaking proceedings across numerous states, including Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas.
Helped community choice aggregator clients seek and secure ratepayer funding for energy efficiency program portfolios at the California Public Utilities Commission.

Education

M.S., UC Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group
J.D., UC Berkeley School of Law
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles