Energy

Ashfords' Energy Team consists of a range of specialist lawyers in intellectual property, projects, project finance, corporate finance, tax, construction, planning, property, regulatory and public law. Our lawyers can advise across the full spectrum of legal issues that energy businesses face, ranging from securing IPRs for clean technology, carbon trading, to renewable energy infrastructure projects.

Work handled includes:

• IPR protection for low carbon technology;
• Offtake agreements;
• Renewable tariffs and applicability;
• Carbon trading regime
  
• Commercial contract drafting and advice;
• Renewable Infrastructure projects;
• Corporate structure and finance for energy businesses;
• Waste to energy;
• Public funding including State Aid;
• Public private R&D collaborations;
• Tax; and
  
• Planning property construction.

• Arranging patent protection and advising a leading research body on marine based carbon sequestration technology;
• Leases for solar PV installations;
• Advising on applicability of ROCs to bio diesel;
• Development of a major biomass plant;
  
• Project and procurement advice to SWRDA on the Cornish Wave Hub wave energy generation project;
• Acting on planning appeals regarding new wind farms;
• Providing legal advice and assistance to DEFRA on its new technology demonstrator programme, which involved funding new waste technologies - many of which involve energy from waste initiatives, including bio-mass, gasification and anaerobic digestion; and
• Advising on various waste to energy contracts for waste management companies.