Nora Sheriff is a Shareholder in Buchalter's San Francisco office and a member of the Firm's Energy & Natural Resources Practice Group. With decades of experience in the energy industry, Nora focuses her practice on electric and natural gas regulatory and administrative litigation, legislative efforts, and end-use contractual transactions; she works to ensure clean energy tools are available for large end-use customer use to help mitigate the impacts of the high cost of California power on California manufacturing and avoid carbon emissions leakage by keeping manufacturing in California. Her clients include cement, steel, industrial gas, medical gas, energy infrastructure, minerals processing, beverage, and cold storage industry corporations, oil and gas energy companies working to advance a lower carbon future, the largest provider of renewable natural gas for transportation in North America, the only private, all-electric, high-speed rail provider, investment banks and lenders, clean energy companies offering scalable, low-carbon solutions to end-users, Municipal Utilities, Cities, Water Agencies, as well as wholesale demand response providers, scheduling coordinator/distributed energy resource aggregators, integration technology solutions providers and renewable energy systems developers. Nora represents large power customers and clean power stakeholders, informs, and helps shape California's energy policy debates, and advocates for clean energy and large end-user ratepayer interests.

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, J.D.
• George Washington University, B.A., International Affairs
• California State University, Sacramento, M.A., International Affairs

• Build and lead broad coalitions of ratepayer representatives to fight for affordable electric and gas utility rates.
• Advocate for reasonable cost of capital outcomes before the CPUC on behalf of large power electric customers and non-core gas transportation ratepayers.
• Engage in gas policy proceedings for non-core gas shipper, producer and marketer interests.
• Represent large power electric customers in CPUC utility general rate cases and rate design window applications, focusing on marginal cost, revenue allocation and rate design issues.
• Represent large non-core gas shippers and renewable natural gas vehicle tariff customers in CPUC utility general rate cases, cost allocation and rate design applications.
• Participate in Regional Organization stakeholder and working group processes to advance the interests of large electric ratepayers in California.
• Advocate for large customer and participant interests in CPUC demand response proceedings and the implementation of integration of demand response into wholesale markets.
• Help clients navigate transitions between bundled and unbundled electric utility service.
• Form and direct multiparty collaborations among diverse stakeholders in administrative litigation and settlement contexts, achieving successful outcomes for her clients in complex, contentious proceedings.
• Develop and guide implementation of streamlined review processes for grade-separated rail crossings at CPUC for all-electric high-speed rail.
• Advise and advocate for clients regarding CPUC regulation of transfer or encumbrance of public utility property.
• Counsel clients on potential impacts of CPUC transition policies to a Net Zero Carbon future.
• Negotiate end-use power contracts and departing load matters.

• The 10 "P's" to Prepare for Wildfire Litigation
• Nora Sheriff, Panelist at Conference of California Public Utility Counsel
• Nora Sheriff, Panelist at the Electricity Affordability Hearing hosted by the California Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee
• PG&E and SCE's Wildfire Mitigation Plans Detail More than $23 billion in Expenditures through 2025
• Nora Sheriff, Speaker at Public Policy Institute of California Conference