Renewable Energy, Demand-Side-Management, and Energy Efficiency
Contact: Richard A. Kanoff
Contact: Paul R. Michaud
Murtha Cullina’s Renewable Energy, Demand-Side-Management (DSM), and Energy Efficiency practice provides comprehensive and innovative solutions to the cutting-edge needs and issues facing clients as they deploy large-scale grid-side renewable energy projects, smaller on-site behind-the-meter distributed generation projects, DSM, and energy efficiency measures.
Attorneys in the group come from an array of disciplines to serve clients in the areas of renewable energy, distributed generation, renewable energy certificates and trading, project finance, DSM, energy efficiency, and obtaining federal and state project incentive monies. Our experience with nearly all renewable energy technologies including solar photovoltaics (PV), wind, biofuel, hydro, fuel cells and combined heat and power (CHP) systems is widespread. Our clients include renewable energy developers, power producers, power purchase agreement providers, property managers, real estate developers, landlords, manufacturers, municipalities, investors, venture capitalists and lenders.
With extensive transactional experience in the renewable energy, DSM, and energy efficiency industries, we are able to advise host sites, energy project developers, power purchase agreement providers and lenders, as well as handle all aspects of the real estate industry. Our attorneys are engaged in project development, obtaining financial incentives for projects, power purchase agreements, real estate lease agreements, REC trading, real estate, energy services performance contracts, business formation, and tax incentives.
Our vast regulatory experience in the renewable energy, DSM, and energy efficiency industries, includes land use, environmental law, siting and permitting. We assist clients in identifying and advocating for the removal of legal, regulatory, and legislative impediments to the full deployment of renewable energy, DSM, and energy efficiency. Our attorneys actively practice before state and federal agencies and tribunals in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Arizona, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Connecticut Siting Council, Connecticut Energy Advisory Board, Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, Energy Conservation and Management Board, Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Arizona Corporation Commission, Arizona Corporation Commission, Arizona Siting Committee, Arizona Department of Environmental Protection as well as similar agencies throughout the Northeast and Southwest.
Representative Experience
- Counsel for a 20 megawatt solar PV plant in Wisconsin
- Counsel for a 1 megawatt solar PV plant at a high school in Connecticut
- Represented a renewable energy project developer in a regulatory proceeding before the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control
- Counsel for 1 megawatt solar PV plant at a waste water and sewage treatment facility in Connecticut
- Represented a large "green" master residential community in Connecticut
- Counsel to a large wind project in predevelopment stage
- Counsel to several smaller on-site solar PV systems at commercial sites in New York and Connecticut
- Due diligence counsel for the purchase of a major Class II tire burning facility
- Counsel to the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Business Association, Inc., with the mission to identify and advocate for the removal of legal, regulatory and legislative impediments to the full deployment of renewable energy, DSM, and energy efficiency in the region.
