HDR is an employee-owned architectural, engineering and consulting firm with a staff of over 8,000 professionals in more than 185 locations worldwide. This staff includes some of the most experienced and capable engineers, regulatory experts, environmental scientists and project management professionals in the hydroelectric industry. HDR assists clients with the development of new hydropower projects from feasibility studies to project engineering, and with the modernization of existing hydropower facilities.

Our modernization experience ranges from run-of-river projects to the largest generator-motors in the world, and includes a 15-year EPC program which revitalized 45 generating units at 13 stations with a total installed capacity of 1,550 MW. In the past ten years, HDR served as lead or provided key technical support for more hydropower licensings and relicensing than any other firm - over 100 facilities in 20 states, representing more than 12,000 MW of installed capacity.

Kleinschmidt is an employee-owned, energy and water resource consultant.  When it comes to energy, however, our primary focus is hydropower.  We have built our organization around hydro for the past 45 years and have 10 strategic office locations to serve the vast majority of hydro owners in the U.S. 

Our services include: Engineering, Licensing, Environmental, Compliance and Fish Passage.  We are currently working on both small and large hydro development projects ranging in size from the 4.4 MW Jordan Dan in North Carolina to the 130 MW Holtwood Redevelopment in Pennsylvania.  Kleinschmidt is proud to partner with forward thinking developers like Hydro Green Energy to continue to pursue renewable energy for America.   

Normandeau Associates is an environmental consulting firm that provides ecological, environmental and natural resources management services across several market sectors and over a wide geographic range. The firm developed a highly regarded, patented fish survival testing system called Hi-Z Turb’N Tag. This system was used to test the first deployment of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Hydropower Turbine in the State of Washington, as well as the nation's first commercial hydrokinetic power project in Hastings, MN. Normandeau is an approved FERC 3rd party environmental contractor.

LEGAL TEAM & ADVISORS

James H. Hancock, Jr. is a Partner in the firm's Energy section. His practice is focused primarily on the licensing and re-licensing of hydroelectric power projects under Part 1 of the Federal Power Act, including license compliance and administration, re-licensing, Clean Water Act compliance, water withdrawals and project joint uses, water rights, shoreline management and environmental issues. He has also been involved in most legislative and regulatory initiatives affecting the hydropower industry over the past ten years. Mr. Hancock also advises clients on federal election law issues, including registration and administration of political action committees, lobbying registration and campaign finance.

James D. Petruzzi received his bachelor's of science degree in electrical engineering with honors from the University of Texas and his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley. Jim worked with Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, a San Francisco-based national law firm and concentrated in litigation with an emphasis on intellectual property matters and antitrust. Jim also worked with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, an international general practice law firm in the Dallas, Texas area exclusively litigating patent, trademark and copyright matters. Jim is licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and admitted to practice in Texas, California, and Washington, D.C.

Jim Petruzzi, with over 22 years of experience, has litigated patent, trademark and copyright cases in courts throughout the United States and has significant courtroom and arbitration experience presenting cases before judges and juries and at the American Arbitration Association and has argued before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.

Charles Cella, co-founded GTC and is a recognized thought leader and leading practitioner in the patent and licensing fields. He provides patent strategy, licensing and technology-transaction services to a broad range of clients, from industry leading software companies to single-inventor startups.

Prior to GTC, Charles founded and was CEO of BountyQuest, an Internet marketplace for information relevant to the strength, validity or applicability of patents and for which he recruited investments from Jeff Bezos and Tim O'Reilly, among others. Previously, Charles was the first patent attorney at Foley Hoag LLP, where he grew the practice to twenty-five people and advised high-tech and biotech firms of all sizes on building IP portfolios and negotiating technology transactions. Charles holds a A.B. in Physics from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia's School of Law.