Our market leading Energy, Renewables & Utilities Group is a multi-disciplinary team of highly experienced lawyers who provide legal advice across a broad range of practice areas encompassing all aspects of energy and natural resources.
These areas include Energy Regulation, Energy Infrastructure and Project Financing, Offshore & Onshore Energy M&A Transactions, Joint Ventures, Construction (including Conventional & Renewable Generation and large scale demand with Data Centres), Environmental law, Planning law and regulatory matters, State Aid, Procurement, Litigation, Real Estate and Tax.
Energy Transition – the Global Shift towards Net Zero
Within the fast-changing global energy landscape, we provide our clients with innovative advice to help navigate their way through the current energy transition from a fossil fuel based economy (both globally, in Europe and in Ireland) to an economy based on renewable power sources and less carbon intensive energy generation.
We understand the interaction of the major issues facing the sector, such as the growing global energy (and particularly electricity) demand, the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the need to ensure security of supply concern. As such, we are best placed to assist market participants in facing the most complex and challenging decisions, within the expansive regulatory frameworks.
We advise on the full spectrum of zero and low carbon power projects and on the technologies necessary to support our transition a zero-carbon economy. We have offered cross-sectional specialist advice on:
- Wind farms (both onshore and offshore)
- Solar farms
- Battery storage
- Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS and O-RESS)
- Green fuels/Bioenergy projects (biomass, biogas)
- EV infrastructure
- Interconnectors
- Power purchase Agreements (PPAs), including for major corporate clients seeking to ensure additionality of renewable generation.
We are committed to helping our clients keep pace with market and regulatory developments, as well as enabling new entrants into the Irish market. In so doing, our cross-departmental team has the industry knowledge required to advise on the commercial, legal and regulatory aspects of all energy projects.
Conventional Power
In addition to our market leading renewables practice, we advise on all matters involving the development of thermal power projects and the gas and electricity demands of large energy users (LEUs). In the current energy landscape, we understand the need for fuel diversity to ensure security of supply as we transition to a renewables-based economy. To that end, we have significant experience in all areas concerning the construction and operation of conventional power plants as well advising on the market interface. A selection of the areas we have advised on includes:
- Hydrocarbon power plant construction and operation
- Liquified natural gas (LNG) projects
- Combined heat and power (CHP) projects
- Gas supply contracts, hedging and disputes
- Carbon trading contracts
- SEM and Capacity Market participation
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