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JOINDER TO NEXTERA ENERGY’S LIMITED

OPPOSITION TO MOTIONS FOR ENTRY OF A

PROTECTIVE ORDER

CASE NO: 19-30088 (DM)

Amy S. Park (SBN 208204)

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP

525 University Avenue

Palo Alto, California 94301

Telephone: (650) 470-4500

Facsimile: (650) 470-4570

amy.park@skadden.com

J. Eric Ivester (admitted pro hac vice)

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP

Four Times Square

New York, New York 10036-6522

Telephone: (212) 735-3000

Facsimile: (212) 735-2000

eric.ivester@skadden.com

Attorneys for 

FIRST SOLAR, INC.,

WILLOW SPRINGS SOLAR 3 LLC,

AND MOJAVE SOLAR, LLC

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

In re:

PG&E CORPORATION

 -andPACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC 

COMPANY,

Debtors.

☐ Affects PG&E Corporation

☐ Affects Pacific Gas and Electric Company 

☒ Affects both Debtors 

*All papers shall be filed in the Lead Case, 

No. 19-30088 (DM).

Bankruptcy Case

No. 19-30088 (DM)

Chapter 11

(Lead Case) 

(Jointly Administered)

JOINDER TO NEXTERA ENERGY’S 

LIMITED OPPOSITION TO 

MOTIONS FOR ENTRY OF A 

PROTECTIVE ORDER

Date: June 26, 2019

Time: 9:30 a.m. (PST)

Place: United Stated Bankruptcy Court 

 Courtroom 17, 16th Floor

 San Francisco, CA 94102

Objection Deadline: June 19, 2019

 4:00 p.m. (PST)

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JOINDER TO NEXTERA ENERGY’S LIMITED

OPPOSITION TO MOTIONS FOR ENTRY OF A

PROTECTIVE ORDER

CASE NO: 19-30088 (DM)

First Solar, Inc., Willow Springs Solar 3, LLC, and Mojave Solar LLC (collectively, the 

“Additional PPA Counterparties”) hereby join (this “Joinder”) in the limited opposition of 

NextEra Energy, Inc. and NextEra Energy Partners, L.P. (collectively, “NextEra”) [Docket No.

2617] (the NextEra Protective Order Objection”) to the (a) Motion of the Official Committee of 

Tort Claimants for Entry of a Protective Order [Docket No. 2419] (the “TCC Motion”) and (b) 

Motion for Entry of Protective Order Pursuant to Fed. R. Bankr. P. 7026 and 9014(c) and 11 

U.S.C. § 105(a) Governing Discovery Materials and Other Information [Docket No. 2459] (the 

“Debtor Motion” and, together with the TCC Motion, the “Motions”).

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For the reasons set forth in the NextEra Protective Order Objection, the Additional PPA 

Counterparties respectfully request that the Court deny both Motions unless the ultimate protective 

order includes provisions (i) permitting parties sharing a common interest to share Protected 

Material with each other, and (ii) substantially similar to the Judicial Intervention procedures set 

forth in Section 6.3 of the TCC Motion. Additionally, for the reasons set forth in the NextEra 

Protective Order Objection, the Additional PPA Counterparties also request that non-transcribed 

oral communications be excluded from the definition of “Discovery Material.”

NOTICE

Notice of this Joinder will be provided to (i) the Office of the U.S. Trustee for Region 17 

(Attn: Anthony R. Vara, Esq. and Timothy Laffredi, Esq.); (ii) counsel to the Debtors; (iii) counsel 

to the Creditors Committee; (iv) counsel to the Tort Claimants Committee; (v) the Securities and 

Exchange Commission; (vi) the Internal Revenue Service; (vii) the Office of the California 

Attorney General; (viii) the California Public Utilities Commission; (ix) the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission; (x) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; (xi) the Office of the United States 

Attorney for the Northern District of California; (xii) counsel for the agent under the Debtors’

debtor-in-possession financing facility; (xiii) counsel to the PPA Counterparties; and (xiv) those 

persons who have formally appeared in these chapter 11 cases and requested service pursuant to 

Bankruptcy Rule 2002.

 

1 Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to 

them in the TCC Motion or Debtor Motion, as applicable.

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JOINDER TO NEXTERA ENERGY’S LIMITED

OPPOSITION TO MOTIONS FOR ENTRY OF A

PROTECTIVE ORDER

CASE NO: 19-30088 (DM)

1053273.02-CHISR01A - MSW

The Additional PPA Counterparties respectfully submit that no further notice is required.

DATED: June 19, 2019

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM, LLP

By: /s/ Amy S. Park

Amy S. Park

Attorneys for

FIRST SOLAR, INC.,

WILLOW SPRINGS SOLAR 3, LLC,

AND MOJAVE SOLAR LLC

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