Ms. Hardwick provides legal research and analysis in energy, administrative, and public utility law. She represents energy trade associations, renewable and cogeneration electricity producers, and electric cooperatives. She has represented energy trade associations on diverse topics including competitive procurement, interconnection, PURPA avoided costs and contracts, direct access, resource adequacy. She advises wind, solar, hydro, biomass, geothermal, cogeneration, and other electricity generators on a variety of transactional matters, including negotiating power purchase agreements, interconnection agreements, wholesale power sales, land use and permitting contracts, resource development and sales, and other matters. She also authored an amicus brief on land use and permitting at the Washington Supreme Court.

Ms. Hardwick has a strong background in energy law and policy. She previously worked at North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association as a legal extern working on various proceedings before the North Carolina Utilities Commission and helped draft appellant briefs before the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Ms. Hardwick graduated from Vermont Law School in 2021, where she earned her J.D., cum laude, and her Masters in Energy Regulation and Law, with distinction. She graduated from North Carolina State University in 2018, where she earned a double major in Environmental Science – B.S., summa cum laude, and Political Science – B.S., summa cum laude, with minors in Renewable Energy Assessment and Economics. Ms. Hardwick studied abroad at Danish Institute for Study Abroad taking classes in renewable energy and climate change science.

In her free time, she enjoys hiking and camping, spending time with her dogs, attending concerts, and cheering on the Portland Fire and Carolina Hurricanes.