Mark D. Detsky’s practice involves matters related to water, energy and electricity, transactions, corporations, and real property. His experience in Colorado water courts includes adjudication of tributary and nontributary water rights and plans for augmentation, changes of water rights, and exchanges. His regulatory experience before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission includes electric resource planning, CPCN proceedings, transmission, ratemaking proceedings, energy efficiency dockets, and rulemakings. Mr. Detsky also practices before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in matters related to transmission and hydropower development. His practice also involves policy work, transactions, corporate matters, public land law, real estate/easement-related legal issues and transactions, and energy and energy-efficiency project development.

Originally from New York, Mr. Detsky is a 2003 graduate of the University of Colorado School of Law and a 1997 graduate of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. In 2004, he was staff attorney for the Amendment 37 campaign, which resulted in the first popular vote on passage of a renewable energy standard in the United States. He has published articles on geothermal law, changes of water rights, ditch company easements, and wind and solar energy. Mr. Detsky also published a novel, entitled As Fast As It Is Gone, in 2007.

Mr. Detsky has presented on “The Law of Wires: Electricity Transmission in Colorado,” and has published the following articles: “Electric Vehicles: Rolling Over Barriers and Merging With Regulation” (William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol. 40, No. 2, March 2016) (with Gabriella Stockmayer); “Getting into Hot Water: The Law of Geothermal Energy in Colorado” (The Colorado Lawyer, Sept. 2010); “Current Issues with Changes of Water Rights Involving Shares of Mutual Ditch Companies” (Ditch and Reservoir Company Alliance, Sept. 2007) (with Jeffrey J. Kahn); “Against the Wind: Implementing Renewable Energy in Colorado” (Boulder County Bar Newsletter, May 2006); “Ditch Rights: The Law of Irrigation Easements and Rights of Way,” in Colorado Water Law Benchbook (CLE in Colo., 2006) (with Jeffrey J. Kahn); Comment, “The Murky Sea over the Magnificent Whale” (Colo. J. Int. Env. L. Policy 2002 Yearbook, Summer 2003); Note, “The Global Light: Lessons for US Solar Policy” (Colo. J. Int. Env. L. Policy, Spring 2003).

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