Irion A. Sanger

Mr. Sanger’s legal and consulting practice focuses on energy, administrative, and public utility law. He represents energy trade associations, municipalities, electric cooperatives, people’s utility districts, irrigation districts, end-use data centers, industrial and commercial consumers, investor-owned water utilities, and renewable and cogeneration electricity producers. Mr. Sanger advises hydro, biomass, geothermal, wind, solar, cogeneration, and other electricity generators on a wide variety of transactional matters, including negotiating power purchase agreements, interconnection agreements, wholesale power sales, resource development and sales, and other matters. He has a lengthy background representing end-use data center, industrial, commercial, and irrigation customers in all facets of retail rates and service quality. Mr. Sanger represents clients in energy and utility matters before state and federal courts, state public utility commissions, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA).

Mr. Sanger is an adjunct instructor at Lewis & Clark Law School and in Portland Community College’s Paralegal Program where he teaches or co-teaches Energy Transitions in the West, Northwest Energy Law, Energy Law: Electricity Regulation, Environmental Law, Administrative Law, Introduction to Law, and Law Practice Management.

Mr. Sanger frequently speaks at Continuing Legal Education events, including The Law of Community Solar and How to Get Involved, Discovery in Contested Cases at the Public Utility Commission of Oregon, Water Utility Regulation, Unplugged from Washington, D.C., and regular presentations for the Oregon State Bar Energy, Telecom, and Utilities Section, among others.

Mr. Sanger previously practiced with the law firm of Davison Van Cleve.  He represented industrial energy users, qualifying facilities, trade associations, and public utilities on regulatory and litigation matters before state and federal regulatory commissions and courts.  Mr. Sanger also worked as a law clerk in the energy and public utility field for both the law firm Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer, & Pembroke and the Bonneville Power Administration, and as a law clerk on undocumented migrant farm worker issues for the Oregon Law Center.

Mr. Sanger graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, in 2000 with cum laude honors and an Environmental Law Certificate, and from World College Institute of New College of California in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in the Humanities with an emphasis in International Environmental Studies.