Renewable Energy Transactions
At the front lines representing companies that are driving the transition to a clean energy future
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Couch White’s Renewable Energy Transactions Group consists of a cross-disciplinary team specializing in energy regulatory, siting, permitting, and real estate that assists clients with a wide variety of renewable energy transactions. Couch White is regularly at the front lines representing companies that are driving the transition to a clean energy future.
Notable transactions include:
- Development, acquisition, and financing of solar, wind, hydroelectric, fuel cell, energy storage, and renewable natural gas projects, at both distribution- and utility-scale.
- Purchases of renewable energy, in the form of renewable energy credit purchases, onsite installations, virtual power purchase agreements, carbon offset purchases, and community solar subscriptions. Click here for a case study discussing how Couch White was able to assist five large corporate buyers aggregate their renewable energy purchases in a first-of-its-kind virtual PPA aggregation.
- Drafting and negotiation of key project contracts, including site control agreements, EPC agreements, utility interconnection agreements, incentive agreements, project off-take agreements, dairy farm biogas/RNG, CHP, decommissioning agreements, and compliance with prevailing wage guidelines.
- Assistance with obtaining, defending, diligencing and complying with local, state and federal land use and environmental permitting obligations, as well as investigation of potential contamination, Phase I ESAs, and related issues for all forms of energy projects
- Siting of transmission lines for onshore and offshore renewable energy projects (Click here for additional details).
Couch White’s Renewable Energy Transactions practice group has helped clients acquire, develop, finance and construct more than 350 renewable energy sites with an aggregate value in excess of $3 billion representing more than 2 Gigawatts of clean renewable energy.
- Community Solar – 300+ sites representing more than a Gigawatt of clean renewable energy
- Large-Scale Solar – 20 sites representing 730+ megawatts of clean renewable energy
- On-shore Wind – 7 sites representing 675+ megawatts of clean renewable energy
- Battery Storage – 28 sites with a capacity to generate 235 megawatts of clean renewable energy
- Fuel Cell – 4 sites representing 30+ megawatts of clean renewable energy