Representative Services:
- Local Land Use Permitting
- Zoning Authorizations & Approvals
- Regulatory Approvals & Authorizations
- New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) Approvals
- Due Diligence & Environmentals
- Route Analyses
- Zoning & Feasibility Analyses
- Property Valuation Analyses
- Site Selection
- Real Property Acquisition & Associated Transactions
- Complex Purchase & Sale Agreements
- Commercial Leases
- Ground Leases
- Easements
- Use Agreements
- Franchise Agreements
- Licenses
- Governmental Relations
- Host Community Agreements (HCA)
- Road Abandonments
- Alienations
- Easement, Title & Property Rights Issues
- Litigation
Our renewable energy practice supports national and international developers, public utilities and private corporations in their efforts to produce, store, and distribute clean and sustainable energy. Several of our clients are pioneers in dynamic and emerging industries, including wind, solar, natural gas and battery storage. We support and advise our renewable energy clients in connection with a wide range of matters relating to project development, acquisition, permit procurement, operation and valuation. Our extensive experience enables us to effectively counsel our clients, in advancing such innovative energy solutions.
Our experience in the renewable energy sector includes:
- Representing an international power generation company as its local lead counsel, with respect to the siting, approvals and procurement of property rights required for the installation and routing of interconnection transmission lines and associated substation infrastructure required for an offshore wind facility.
- Collaborating with Article VII co-counsel on application materials to effectuate the PSC’s approval of offshore wind facilities.
- Representing a battery storage project developer in connection with its due diligence efforts to assess the feasibility of potential sites, and to acquire properties and procure local municipal permits and zoning approvals in order to construct, operate and maintain battery energy storage facilities across the Long Island region.
- Representing a power generation company with respect to procuring local municipal permits and approvals and pursuing litigation to construct an electric generation facility using natural gas powered fuel cells.