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Energy Evolution Law • Paul B. Turner

Understanding the law behind energy-market decisions.

Practical analysis of trading, regulation, credit, and evolving energy markets. Written for commercial teams, risk professionals, and lawyers.

Texas Dropped the Interconnection Fee. It Did Not Drop the Collateral.

Paul B. Turner | Turner Commodities Law, PLLC

Examines the financial commitments under Texas’s adopted large-load interconnection rule, including study fees, intermediate and SLLIA security, collateral release, treatment of existing and Batch Zero projects, and the separate ERCOT data-center review.

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Selected publications

Policy, market structure, and risk.

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Powering the Hyperscaler: A Legal and Commercial Guide to Gas, Power, Trading and Regulatory Risk in Serving Data Centers in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas

Paul Turner, Principal, Turner Commodities Law, PLLC; James Guy, Principal, Deacon Law Group, PLLC

A guide to the interlocking gas, generation, power, retail service, ERCOT, hedging, credit, and development obligations involved in serving hyperscale data centers, with a practical approval checklist and a focus on risks between contracts.

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Certified Natural Gas and the Integrity Gap: Market Structure, Verification Risk, and the Emerging Institutions of Environmental Commodity Markets

Examines the emerging market for certified natural gas, including methane-intensity measurement, verification risk, chain-of-custody and double-counting concerns, and the development of trading platforms and institutional infrastructure designed to improve market integrity.

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Education

Trading law, explained.

Primers for understanding the documentation and regulatory framework behind energy and commodities trading.

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Industry involvement

Risk and governance.

Paul serves as a CCRO Board Member and Corporate Secretary and as a member of the TruMarx Data Partners Advisory Committee. His industry involvement connects trading law with risk, governance, and energy-market technology.

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When analysis becomes a business decision.

Discuss a transaction, a compliance question, or a trading risk with Paul.

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