Clean Energy
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About our clean energy expertise
We have genuine in-depth knowledge of the clean energy sector, with particular expertise in renewable energy, battery storage, distributed generation, heat and innovative/smart solutions.
Our clean energy experience includes:
- Battery storage
- Ground-mounted, rooftop and floating solar PV
- Bioenergy, including biogas
- Onshore and offshore wind
- Combined heat and power (CHP)
- Onshore and offshore electricity networks including private wires, microgrids and OFTOs
- Grid connections
- Smart metering
- Virtual power plants
- Energy services and energy performance contracting
- Route-to-market contracts
- Power purchase agreements (including all types of corporate PPA – private wire, sleeved and synthetic/virtual)
- Battery optimisation services contracts
- Hybrid RTM contracts for co-located assets
- Electricity and heat supply contracts
- Distributed generation, asset aggregation and portfolio optimisation
- Balancing services (including the Capacity Market)
- Energy industry regulation (including clean energy subsidies, low carbon incentives, licensing and licence exemptions)
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Why choose us?
Members of our clean energy team specialise in:
> Commercial contracts
> Regulation
> Real estate
> Planning & environment
> Construction
> Corporate transactions & taxation
> Banking & finance
> Climate change litigation & greenwashing
> Public procurement
> Health & safety
> Business structures & restructuring
> Intellectual property, IT & data
Notable work & expertise
Advising the shareholders of Fig Power (including investor BGF) on its sale to The Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited (TRIG), the FTSE 250 investment company. Fig Power is a developer of distributed energy storage and generation assets and was spun-out from award-winning engineering design, energy and sustainability consultancy, Hydrock. TRIG has a portfolio of wind, solar and battery storage projects across Europe and is advised by investment manager InfraRed Capital Partners Ltd.
Advising ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales on an innovative power purchase and optimisation services contract for one of the UK’s first debt-funded co-located solar and battery storage project. Our role included advising on issues arising from the lenders’ financing arrangements in respect of the debt-funding of the battery construction and operation, and the implications for the offtake arrangements.
Advising Centrica PLC on the acquisition of an SPV holding project rights for the development of a 30MW battery energy storage system in Scotland, including due diligence on the grid connection, land rights and planning (via Scottish co-counsel), negotiation of the acquisition documentation and advice in relation to application of the new National Security & Investment (NSI) regime and energy industry regulation.
Advising the owner/operator of a portfolio of real estate assets on a high value dispute concerning its electricity procurement arrangements, involving a number of different licensed energy suppliers, a complex matrix of agreed and deemed contracts, the insolvency of one of the suppliers and an associated Supplier of Last Resort arrangement. This matter required energy and commercial contracts expertise as well as input from our dispute management and insolvency teams.
View all our various clean energy projects, including advising on sales, joint ventures and development services for energy storage, solar, and battery projects in the UK and Scotland.
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Testimonials
"The projects, energy and natural resources team at Freeths show great market acumen."
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"The team is always available and delivers to deadline. Their attention to detail is exceptional."
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Meet our team
Philippa Dempster
Senior Partner & London Office Managing Partner
Chris Freeston
Nottingham Office Managing Partner & National Head of Banking & Finance
Matt Collingwood-Cooper
Partner
James Hartley
Partner & National Head of Dispute Resolution
Andrew Maxwell
Partner and Head of Competition
Emily Settle
Partner | Head of International
Malin Svanberg Larsson
Partner
Stephanie Gozney
Managing Associate
Charlotte Hartwright
Senior Associate
Sadiea Mustafa-Awan
Senior Associate
Henrietta Rendell
Senior Associate
Shraiya Thapa
Senior Associate, Knowledge Management Lawyer
Thomas Des-Rosiers
Associate
Karolina Olczak
Immigration Executive
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