Solar Energy

Representative Experience

• Advised a California utility on the structuring and other aspects of a multi-stage transaction for the third-party development and construction of a 20-megawatt solar facility, and the subsequent indirect acquisition and tax equity financing of the project by the regulated utility.
• Represented Algonquin Power Co. in the acquisition, development, and tax equity financing of an approximately $58 million 20-megawatt solar energy facility in California.
• Represented a project sponsor in the sale of all energy and associated environmental attributes from two solar energy facilities, sized 100 MW and 50 MW, in Texas.
• Provided real estate, tax abatement, regulatory, PPA negotiation and representation before municipal agencies in the development of a 30 MW solar facility near Austin, Texas.
• Represented NV Energy Inc. in its partnership with Apple Inc. to construct a first-of-its-kind 20-megawatt, 137-acre photovoltaic solar plant that will generate approximately 43.5 million kilowatt hours of clean energy to offset the electricity load for Apple’s 90,000-square-foot data center. Husch Blackwell represented NV Energy throughout the project, from structuring the transaction to lease, development, and renewable energy agreements.
• Advised a leading global renewable energy developer on Colorado regulatory aspects of their acquisition of four commercial-scale solar facilities (both ground mounted and rooftop) with various municipal, quasi-municipal, and state funded landowners and off-takers.
• Lead real estate counsel in connection with negotiation of a utility scale solar lease with the Texas General Land Office.
• Advised owner of a 20-megawatt photovoltaic power generation facility in California in various development matters for the project.
• Represented a developer/owner in connection with the brownfield development of a 15-20-megawatt solar facility in the State of Missouri, including late-stage PPA discussions.
• Represented U.S. Bank in connection with multiple tax equity investments in aggregated portfolios of commercial scale solar energy facilities.
• Counseled Emerson Electric in the drafting and negotiating of a supply contract with an EPC contractor for the supply and installation of inverters as part of solar photovoltaic power facility.
• Serve as counsel to a developer of large-scale commercial solar energy projects throughout the United States. Our client is the North American solar energy division of a global developer of solar, wind, and other renewable energy facilities.
• Assist Western solar firms with their federal regulatory work and on policy initiatives related to the expansion of the transmission system to serve future needs.
• Represented client in connection with their response to a utility-scale solar energy request-for-proposal of a public utility in the Southeast.
• Represented European infrastructure fund as developer’s counsel for the purchase, development, hedge equity investment, and tax equity financing of 848 GW of wind and solar projects in Texas.
• Represented developer in the development, construction lender financing, tax equity financing, and hedge financing of 872 MW of solar projects in Texas, with projects totaling more than $1.1 billion.
• Represented solar energy company in the acquisition of a 180 MW solar project in Texas.
• Represented developer of 440 MW of solar projects. Provided development, real estate, environmental, electric regulatory, and state tax expertise on all matters.
• Represented leading solar and energy storage project development company as project counsel in the sale, construction, and tax equity financing of 200 MW solar project in Texas.
• Represented Orsted Onshore North America, Inc. as real estate and development counsel for multiple development-stage solar matters in Texas, Kansas, and Nebraska. Counseled client regarding the preparation and negotiation of financeable lease terms, title and survey review, local counsel due-diligence, and tax equity investment considerations.