AREA OF PRACTICE

Energy project development, electric resource planning, transmission, energy efficiency dockets and rulemaking, water and real estate law

EDUCATION

University of Colorado School of Law, J.D., 2003
University of Michigan, Bachelor of Arts, 1997
London School of Economics and Political Science, 1996

BAR

State of Colorado, 2003

EMAIL

MDetsky@dietzedavis.com

Mark Detsky

Mark’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 experience before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission includes electric resource planning, transmission, ratemaking proceedings, energy efficiency dockets and rulemakings.  Mark also practices before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in matters related to transmission and to hydropower development.  In addition, his practice involves legislative and policy work, corporate matters, public land matters, real estate/easement related matters and renewable energy and energy efficiency project development.  Mark represents developers of renewable energy projects, governmental entities, private and non-profit corporations, as well as individuals.

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 attorney for the Amendment 37 campaign, which resulted in the first popular vote on passage of a renewable energy standard in the United States. Mark has published articles on changes of water rights, ditch company easements and wind and solar energy. Mark also published a novel, entitled As Fast As It Is Gone, in 2007. 

Mark Detsky Presentations:

"The Law of  Wires: Electricity Transmission in Colorado"

Publications:

Getting Into Hot Water: the Law of Geothermal Energy in Colorado, published in the September 2010 issue of the Colorado Lawyer.

Current Issues with Changes of Water Rights Involving Shares of Mutual Ditch Companies, in Ditch and Reservoir Company Alliance, co-authored with Jeffrey J. Kahn (Sept. 2007).

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 BENCH BOOK, Colorado Bar Association, co-authored with Jeffrey J. Kahn (2006).

Comment, The Murkey Sea over the Magnificent Whale, Colo. Journal Int. Env. L. Policy 2002 Yearbook (Summer 2003).

Note, The Global Light: Lessons for US Solar Policy, 14 Colo. Journal Int. Env. L. Policy 301 (Spring 2003).