Electricity
Today’s electricity industry faces substantial
challenges. While global demand for electricity continues to
grow, climate change policy drives pressure to reduce reliance on
traditional fossil fuels and shift to cleaner generation
technologies such as natural gas, renewables, nuclear, carbon
capture and sequestration. The same pressures drive the development
of "smart grid," local distribution infrastructure, and associated
energy efficiency technologies.
Developed economies face the additional
political challenges of securing increased diversity of security of
supply and price stability for consumers. Developing economies have
imperatives to bring the full benefits of reliable energy supplies
to all their people.
The scale of the required investment to meet
these challenges is daunting and it must be secured affordably for
consumers and taxpayers. Governments, regulators, investors,
operators and financiers will need to be at the top of their game
to succeed.
The electricity business needs lawyers who
understand the industry and its challenges. People for whom
immersion in the industry demands that they use their wide
perspective to cut through the detail and deliver practical
solutions. People who work across generation technologies, for
transmission, distribution and retail businesses and who understand
how markets work. People who can be trusted to be right first
time, on time.
SNR Denton's electricity clients rely on an
award-winning global team to deliver all the legal services they
need. They can bank on real industry expertise and exceptional
local knowledge gained through extensive work in worldwide
electricity market design and daily transactional and operational
contact with major industry players.
Areas of Focus:
- Market Design and Reform at the wholesale and retail
levels
- Project Development and Finance (fossil fuels, CCS, nuclear,
renewables, transmission, pipeline, and LNG)
- Transmission and Distribution
- Litigation and Dispute Resolution
- Climate change and renewables
- Energy and carbon trading, derivatives and hedging
- Regulation and anti-trust (competition)
- Privatization
- Energy sector joint ventures, M&A and securities
issuances
- Technology and commercial contracts
- PLPS - legislative and political risk counseling