Renewable Energy

Overview

Crowell & Moring handles the difficult issues confronting development and financing of renewable projects. Our highly-ranked attorneys provide strategic advice for the transactions and the regulatory strategy to implement renewables projects, energy storage projects and related interconnection facilities and market products. We structure the project contracts for renewables projects large and small, negotiate strategic ventures with innovators in the renewables space and work with emerging companies to create revenue streams for new products. Our attorneys are well-recognized for their work both in renewable energy experience and climate change and finance.

Our energy team’s work extends beyond the USA and into Latin America and Asia. While we represent the leading players in the renewables space (including developers, yield cos, merchant generators and transmission companies, investor-owned utilities and trade associations), we also are proud of our depth in representing universities, other educational institutions, industrials and others for whom energy is not their core business but who turn to our firm’s deep cross-disciplinary knowledge to provide wise counsel in energy matters. The majority of the firm's energy work is in and around wind, solar, biomass, hydro and other renewables and clean technologies. 

Insights

Client Alert | 3 min read | 08.18.22

UK Government Launches Review of Electricity Markets

There is no doubt that the war in Ukraine has had sweeping impacts on a number of markets around the world from supply chains to commodity pricing. Perhaps the most immediate impact in the UK has been on energy prices, which have reached record levels and had massive impacts on both inflation and, of course, cost of living. It is therefore timely that the UK Government has recently launched a much-needed review of electricity markets intended to future-proof the current system and make it better able to accommodate the huge increase in renewable energy required to meet our net zero ambitions....

Representative Matters

  • Represented a major wind developer in a 2.46 W of master turbine producer agreements.
  • Represented NRG Yield, Inc. in $250 million investment in a partnership to acquire residential and distributed solar assets.
  • Represented a major independent power developer in negotiating a build-transfer agreement for a 150 MW wind facility.
  • Represented a joint venture in the acquisition of five hydroelectric facilities with an aggregate capacity of 94 MW.
  • Represented numerous buyers and sellers in negotiating power purchase agreements for wind, solar, hydro and biomass projects.

Insights

Client Alert | 3 min read | 08.18.22

UK Government Launches Review of Electricity Markets

There is no doubt that the war in Ukraine has had sweeping impacts on a number of markets around the world from supply chains to commodity pricing. Perhaps the most immediate impact in the UK has been on energy prices, which have reached record levels and had massive impacts on both inflation and, of course, cost of living. It is therefore timely that the UK Government has recently launched a much-needed review of electricity markets intended to future-proof the current system and make it better able to accommodate the huge increase in renewable energy required to meet our net zero ambitions....

Professionals

Insights

Client Alert | 3 min read | 08.18.22

UK Government Launches Review of Electricity Markets

There is no doubt that the war in Ukraine has had sweeping impacts on a number of markets around the world from supply chains to commodity pricing. Perhaps the most immediate impact in the UK has been on energy prices, which have reached record levels and had massive impacts on both inflation and, of course, cost of living. It is therefore timely that the UK Government has recently launched a much-needed review of electricity markets intended to future-proof the current system and make it better able to accommodate the huge increase in renewable energy required to meet our net zero ambitions....