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Climate Change & Sustainability Experience
Following are specific examples
of the work done by our Climate Change/Sustainability Group:
- Working with commercial and residential developers to deal with
evolving requirements of their projects' greenhouse gas and climate
change impacts and to identify practical measures to reduce these
impacts.
- Working with businesses that are involved in sustainable energy
generation—including solar, wind, bio fuels, and waste to energy—with
such questions as intellectual property licensing, venture capital
or other financing, and government permitting and contracting,
- Providing strategic and legal advice to hydroelectric project developers
who need natural resource compliance during relicensing.
- Working with a large, utility scale, proponent of solar thermal
generation to represent it before regulatory agencies and to support
all areas of its business plan, from environmental permitting, and
labor negotiations, to interconnection agreements.
- Representing a geothermal developer before regulatory agencies to
successfully obtain permits for a new geothermal field and power plant,
expanding to well in excess of 100 megawatts.
- Working with a business on the purchase of a wind farm and using
our extensive merger & acquisition experience to complete the
acquisition and successfully secure financing and negotiate lease
renewal with the federal land owner to make the project a reality.
- Representing a large retail service provider in the comprehensive
greenhouse gas reduction proceedings in California under Assembly
Bill 32 before all three agencies: the California Air Resources Board,
California Energy Commission and California Public Utilities Commission.
Serving as the lead counsel on the development of regulations under
Senate Bill 1368 limiting long-term investment or power purchases
from high carbon resources.
- Providing legal advice on exposure and liability to independent
power plant owners as a result of new greenhouse gas regulations in
California. Advising large industrial and commercial operations included
in phase one implementation of the draft greenhouse gas reporting
regulations on their obligations and potential upcoming liability
for greenhouse gas emissions.
- Helping a public utility move closer to more than doubling the capacity of its Solano County wind farm operations. Our attorneys worked on phase 3 of the operation, which is expected to be operational by late 2011 and will add 128 megawatts to the wind farm's production capacity. Our Group produced a revised EIR that addressed various unresolved issues, including the issue of whether the windmills posed a significant impact to radar used at Travis Air Force Base.
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