Renewable Energy

Morgan Lewis is a recognized leader in renewable energy. Utilities, project developers, financial institutions, investors, and entrepreneurs benefit from our integrated transactional financing and regulatory energy capabilities and our extensive industry knowledge.

Our clients look to us for comprehensive assistance in seizing new opportunities and understanding regulatory developments. Our cross-disciplinary team of lawyers focusing on renewable energy provides a national resource to emerging and mature companies in the industry, advising on project finance, renewable energy development and procurement, tax strategies, intellectual property protection, and environmental issues, including climate change.

We provide strategic counseling to renewable energy project developers, assisting clients in the full range of renewable energy project development, finance and regulatory issues, including power purchase and marketing agreements, construction agreements, equipment purchase and sale agreements, licensing, and maintenance agreements. We advise clients on all phases of debt and equity financing, tax structuring, joint ventures, asset acquisition and disposition, permitting, environmental compliance, and real estate and land use matters. Our wind energy attorneys have completed wind development projects in the U.S. totalling more than 1,000 MW of capacity and have closed wind project financing transactions in excess of $1 billion.

As counsel to leading utilities around the country, we advise on many issues of first impression as renewable portfolio standards and new transmission rules and reliability standards are developed and take effect. We counsel utilities on procurement of renewable energy and renewable energy credits, and we develop model power purchase agreements and other contracts for cutting-edge transactions in renewable energy markets.