Energy

Our renewable energy team is comprised of the region’s leaders in providing legal advice and guidance to developers, contractors, independent power producers, provincial utilities, lenders and underwriters, and energy market participants as they navigate the evolving regulatory regimes associated with permitting, developing, constructing, financing and investing in renewable and clean energy projects. We advise both governments and proponents on various aspects of the procurement process and documentation for major renewable energy projects as well as to parties on joint venture arrangements. We are proud member of the Canadian Renewable Energy Association.

Our experience includes projects involving wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, nuclear, hydro, and, as you might expect from a firm based on the east coast, tidal energy. We have acted on:

• Hydroelectricity generation and transmission
• Power purchase agreements
• Interconnection processes and operating agreements
• Compliance with regulatory and environmental requirements
• Land leases to permit development of renewable energy facilities
• Project financings
• Procurement
•  Tax structures
• Environmental assessments
• Carbon capture utilization and storage

Insights

Throughout the year, our lawyers practicing in renewable energy provide written insights and updates on recent case law and legislation in the region and beyond. To learn more about relevant topics, click on one of the following titles:

• Reset for renewables: Nova Scotia overhauls energy regulation and governance in advance of influx of renewable energy
• Energy Watch
• The Winds of Change: Full Series

• Federal Government introduces amendments to expand the mandates of the two historic Atlantic Accord Acts to include offshore wind energy

• The Winds of Change (Part 7): Paying the Piper: New Newfoundland and Labrador Fiscal Framework expects billions in revenues from wind to hydrogen projects
• The Winds of Change (Part 6): Place your bids – Crown lands soon to be available for wind energy projects
• The Winds of Change (Part 5): Atlantic Canada poised to benefit from clean energy tax credits
• Nova Scotia setting legislative framework for green hydrogen
• New Brunswick Provincial Government releases Climate Change Plan

• Federal Government, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador clearing the way for offshore wind development

• The Winds of Change (Part 4): A Review of Rental and Royalty Regimes for Wind Development on Crown Lands: Options for Newfoundland and Labrador’s Economic Wind Policy

• The winds of change (part 3): Newfoundland and Labrador releases wind energy guidelines 
• The winds of change (part 2): Crown Land
• Nova Scotia municipality plans changes to wind turbine regulations
• The winds of change (part 1) – Newfoundland and Labrador Government signaling major shift in energy policy