Profile

Throughout his career, Henry Campen has helped emerging industries and high-tech companies establish and expand across the Southeast. Mr. Campen has built relationships that provide clients with insight beyond the letter of the law.

Mr. Campen represents clients on regulatory matters with a focus on renewable energy development and regulation.

Experience Highlights

Mr. Campen’s clients include wind, solar, biogas and biomass companies for whom he provides both regulatory and business counsel, including the following:

• Strategic business counsel regarding all aspects of planning, siting and development of renewable energy facilities
• Appearances before the North Carolina Utilities Commission (Commission) in ongoing proceedings regarding implementation of North Carolina’s Renewable Energy and Efficiency Portfolio Standard (RPS) and in permitting and certification proceedings
• Negotiating federal, state and local economic development incentives for renewable energy clients; registering client renewable energy facilities with the Commission to ensure renewable energy certificates generated by the facility are tradable under the RPS
• Securing land use and zoning approvals from local governing and planning boards to site energy facilities

His sustainable energy advice also includes:

• Counseling land-based wind developers on all aspects of state and local permitting and siting decisions
• Representing developers of a mixed-use energy park, planned to include a sustainable, biomass energy plant that will support neighboring commercial and manufacturing uses
• Advising developers of biogas facilities on state and local regulatory issues
• Counseling foreign investors regarding wood pellet manufacturing opportunities in the Carolinas
• Counsel on regulatory, environmental and finance issues to developers of an offshore wind energy project
• Leading organizing efforts across North Carolina to advance the sustainable energy industry, including promotion of economic development initiatives and industry conferences attracting regional interest
• Serving as a member of the North Carolina Wind Working Group with the goal of promoting wind energy development in North Carolina

Relationships

Mr. Campen has relationships with key agencies and personnel that makeup the renewable energy community in North Carolina, including the:

• Energy Policy Council
• North Carolina Department of Commerce, Energy Division
• North Carolina Utilities Commission
• North Carolina Solar Center
• North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association

News

• Partners, Business Leaders and Officials Honor Former Mayor
  Law Partners Donate Artwork and Commemorative Plaque, Council Names Lobby and Ballroom to Honor Charles Meeker
  December 14, 2011
• Henry Campen Named to Raleigh Chamber Board of Directors
  October 11, 2011
• 69 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2012
  September 6, 2011
• Wind Energy Project Moving Closer to Reality Counties Grant Permits for State’s First Wind Energy Project
  July 18, 2011
• Counties Approve Economic Development Incentive Grants for NC Wind Energy Project
  April 27, 2011
• Henry Campen Selected as Board of Advisors Chair at NC State University
  NC State University Poole College of Management
  February 1, 2011
• Iberdrola Renewables Announces Permit Application for North Carolina Wind Power Project
  January 28, 2011
• 61 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2011
  August 18, 2010
• Henry Campen to Serve on Renewable Energy Policy Committee
  Parker Poe Partner to Add Insight on Wind Energy
  July 29, 2010
• Henry Campen Named to Two University Posts
  September 24, 2009
• Treasury and DOE Issue Guidance on Grants in Lieu of Tax Credits
  July 24, 2009
• Henry C. Campen, Jr. Re-Elected to Parker Poe's Board of Directors
  February 1, 2008
• Parker Poe Receives Pinnacle Business Award
  May 3, 2007
• Flood of new lawyers preps to enter ranks
  Triangle Business Journal
  August 25, 2006
• We've Staked a Claim in the Heart of Raleigh
  The News & Observer
  July 28, 2006

Events & Speaking Engagements

• Sustainability Advancements in North Carolina, Presenter, Sponsored by the Global Training Initiative at NCSU
  February 2011
  North Carolina State University, Poole College of Management
• Land-Based Wind in North Carolina, Challenges and Opportunities, Panel Moderator
  April 20, 2010
  North Carolina Sustainable Energy Conference
• The Role of the Developer’s Lawyer – Coastal and Terrestrial Wind Options; Other Renewables (NC Bar Association CLE)
  February 24, 2010
  Cary, NC
• Strategies For Maximizing the Impact of Renewable Energies – (Charlotte Regional Partnership)
  November 2009
  Charlotte, NC
• Offshore Wind Power, Panel Moderator
  April 14, 2009
  North Carolina Sustainable Energy Conference

Publications

“Land Use and Wind Energy Generation in North Carolina,” Land Use Law Quarterly, a publication of the North Carolina Bar Association, Zoning, Planning & Land Use Section, April 2010

Memberships

• Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
  Board of Directors, 2011-2012
• North Carolina State University
  Board of Visitors, 2009-2012
• North Carolina State University Poole College of Management
  Board of Advisors, 2006-present; Chair, 2011-2012
• Wake Forest University
  Alumni Council, 2009-2012
• American Wind Energy Association