Bryan Cave has not just recently established a renewable and alternative energy practice to take advantage of recent trends.  For more than 30 years, Bryan Cave’s lawyers have been active in renewable and alternative energy project development, financing and operations including wind, biomass and geothermal generation projects, and the production of alternative fuels including synthetic fuel from

Bryan Cave represents clients in analyzing project feasibility, structuring project ownership, project financing, and project development, including project siting, governmental land use and other approvals, environmental and other permitting, regulatory compliance, and contracts for project construction and operation, facility interconnection, transmission, power and other product offtake arrangements, operations and maintenance and fuel and other feedstock supply arrangements.

We have extensive experience in structuring and restructuring projects to monetize federal and state tax credits and renewable energy credits, including partnership structuring to allocate tax credits and obtaining private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service regarding credit qualification and related tax issues.

Examples of the types of services and advice that Bryan Cave’s renewable energy group can provide include:

• Permitting of wind and solar energy projects.
• Solar and wind electric energy project development.
• Ethanol and other bio-fuel technology development.
• Tax credit monitization.
• Acquisition and operation of district energy facilities.
• Construction, operation and permitting of cogeneration systems.
• Power plant and other energy production facility siting, engineering, construction, commissioning and operation, including negotiation and contracting for delivery of all materials and services for the project.
• Global procurement and sourcing for energy production projects, including long term service agreements.
• Strategic planning and risk management, including feasibility, insurance and other risk minimizing strategies.
• Petrochemical plant investments.
• Energy facility eminent domain proceedings.
• Acquisition of U.S. electric utility properties, including due diligence.
• Power purchase agreements between unregulated independent power producers and utilities, regional system operators or end users of electric power served through regulated transmission and distribution services.
• Negotiating, drafting and interpreting contracts between gas, electric or other competing, unregulated alternative retail energy services companies and commercial customers.
• Domestic and international litigation and dispute resolution of complaints related to energy project development, operation or service delivery.