Becky Diffen is a partner based in Norton Rose Fulbright’s Austin office where she focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and project development of renewable energy, energy storage, power generation and transmission projects – including wind, solar, battery storage, green hydrogen, carbon capture, geothermal, waste-to-energy, RNG and other technologies. She also has experience advising clients on Texas regulatory law. Becky has over 20 years of experience in the renewable energy industry and previously worked as a utility-scale wind power developer.
Becky is a co-author of Wind Law, the first and only legal treatise focused on the wind industry, and her new treatise, Wind and Solar Law, was published in late 2021. She has been recognized annually by Chambers Global and Chambers USA, was honored as a 2021 Law 360 Project Finance MVP, and in 2019 was named the C3E Law and Finance award winner by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Becky serves on the board of directors and executive committee of the national Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy (WRISE) organization, as well as serving as a member of the Advisory Board of the WRISE Austin Chapter. Becky is a magna cum laude graduate of Carleton College and earned her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of Volume 4 of the Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, & Energy Law and now teaches a seminar on renewable energy law as an adjunct professor.