Renewable Energy
Business, community, government and energy
sectors are all experiencing unprecedented challenges and
opportunities in clean energy. Global demand for energy continues
to expand, and renewable investment exponentially so, despite the
current position of the world's economies in this economic cycle.
Incentives, a growing consensus to support clean energy, and
climate change politics are precipitating a worldwide shift away
from traditional fossil fuels to cleaner generation technologies
such as renewables and nuclear.
The scale of investment and interest in this
sector presents one of the greatest opportunities of this new
century. Established economies are seeking to diversify their
energy portfolios, so as to provide greater price and physical
stability and kick start innovative economic drivers in their
overall economies. Developing economies have imperatives to bring
the full benefits of reliable energy supplies to their constituents
and build reliable and sustainable infrastructure to ensure their
economic prosperity. What has set the renewable energy economy
particularly apart from other emerging sectors is its deep and
fundamentally international nature - from equipment to finance to
transactional expertise, the sector has a deep history in the
international community.
The particular expertise needed to help guide businesses,
communities, and governments through these exciting changes,
opportunities and challenges can be drawn from international
experience. The SNR Denton renewable energy team is uniquely
positioned to serve clients wherever they may wish to develop
renewable energy projects.
Areas of Focus:
- Advising clients on project development - including: site
acquisition, transmission and interconnection agreements, planning,
permitting, leasing, partnership structure, construction, equipment
agreements, regulatory advisory, EPC and PILOT negotiations, and
advisory and operation of infrastructure
- Advising on workable project finance solutions
- Advising on the acquisition and divestiture of energy assets
and on joint venture and other cooperation arrangements
- Negotiating power purchase agreement and providing advisory
services
- Advising on project tax issues - including relevant tax credits
and other subsidy regimes
- Advising on environmental issues relating to project
development
- Advising on market rules affecting costs, including ancillary
services
- Advising on mechanisms to facilitate financing of projects,
such as synthetic energy hedges and derivatives
- Providing advice and analysis of national, regional and
international policy
- Advising on national, regional and international regulatory
frameworks
- Advising across biofuels, biomass, carbon capture and storage,
geothermal, hydroelectric, landfill gas, solar, waste-to-energy,
wave and tidal and wind sector