Specialist end-to-end grid connection legal advice
We provide a full range of legal services to support clients throughout the grid connection process and can support you in practical application planning or advise on longer term strategies and realistic timeframes.
Our expertise spans renewable energy technologies, including solar, wind, hydro, biomass, and emerging technologies such as battery storage and hydrogen. This broad experience enables us to help you navigate the complexities and constraints involved in securing grid capacity.
Excellent all round team with capabilities spanning development, construction, operation and financing. Very good experience in offtake arrangements and early recogniser of the intersection of IT and power markets.
How we can help you
We advise clients, including network operators, on the wide range of issues that impact their businesses, including:
- regulatory compliance, statutory requirements and national and local grid connection regulations;
- connection applications, connection agreements, milestone compliance, legal permissions and consents, timescales for connections, connection date compliance, charges and relevant codes and policies for connections;
- connection disputes and wider dispute resolution;
- construction and engineering agreements, requirements and disputes;
- queue management arrangements and requirements, connection queue positioning and connection application terminations;
- capacity allocation;
- advice on grid constraints and necessary upgrades to existing grid infrastructure;
- planning and the deployment of statutory and/or compulsory purchase powers to achieve connections; and
- Ofgem connection complaints and determinations.
Our grid connection lawyers
Our large team of highly experienced lawyers in this area spans a number of jurisdictions. We can provide the end-to-end specialist advice required to navigate what can often be a complex, project limiting, expensive and time-consuming process.
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