Renewable Energy Projects: Keys to Drafting Power Purchase Agreements
Renewable Energy Projects: Keys to Drafting Power Purchase Agreements
Thursday, March 31, 2011
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. (Eastern)
Join Stoel Rives Partner, Bill Holmes, as he presents this exclusive, 60-minute webinar on Thursday, March 31.
The power purchase agreement (PPA) is the most critical component of a renewable energy project, and essential to project finance. Knowing how to properly draft and negotiate PPAs will not only alleviate tension between buyer and seller, but will protect your client by equitably allocating future risks that can arise in this ever-changing business and legal environment. This webinar also features a live Q&A session, where you can get expert answers to your specific PPA questions.
Key highlights and learning objectives:
• How to draft and negotiate PPAs: critical terms and provisions for the buyer and seller
• Keys to allocating risks of RPS compliance, curtailment, change of law, and more
• Strategies to proactively address common disputes between developers and purchasers
• Key considerations for drafting dispute resolution clauses for PPAs
This crucial webinar is not to be missed. Click here to register.
Upcoming Webinar: Legal Implications of Energy Storage
Join Stoel Rives renewable energy partners Bill Holmes, Marcus Wood and Edna Vassilovski for this EUCI-sponsored webinar on Wednesday, October 20. They will be speaking on the Legal Implications of Energy Storage. This webinar will appeal to anyone involved in and with renewable energy.
- Overview of the role of energy storage in the overall energy system
- Intellectual property issues: invention and use of advanced storage technologies
- Patent law basics
- Licensing agreements
- Is energy storage transmission or generation?
- Legal impact of adding to the distribution system, the bulk transmission system, or both
- Energy storage tolling agreements
- Basic terms and conditions
- Incorporating storage into renewable energy development plans
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 2:30 p.m. ET; 11:30 a.m. PT |
For more information about this webinar and to register, please click here.
Upcoming Webinar: Impact of State RPS's and the Prospect of a Federal RPS on What Utilities are Doing in Terms of Purchasing the Output of Wind Farms - January 27, 2010
With 3/5 of the States having Renewable Portfolio Standard in place and the prospect of a Federal RPS, many utilities are seeking to become first time purchasers of the output from wind projects. And utilities with a history of purchasing wind are seeking additional resources. In 2009, the presenters collectively worked on over 40 wind power purchase agreements for projects located throughout the United States, enabling them to present a comprehensive overview of the impact of these developments. A number of first time purchasers have been using the RFP process as a vehicle for educating themselves about wind, and often experience difficulty in translating PPA terms that are appropriate for base load resources into PPA terms that work for intermittent resources like wind. Through various PPA terms, utilities are increasingly seeking to place the risk of non-compliance with the RPS on the wind project developer. These developments can result in PPA terms that are very problematic for the financing of the project. This webinar will explore these recent developments, including issues related to output and availability guarantees, allocation of curtailment risk for long-distance transmission to load, wind integration charges, delay damages, conditions precedent, termination rights and the measure of damages.
Moderator:
Edward D. Einowski, Partner, STOEL RIVES LLP
Panelists:
Teresa Hill, Partner, STOEL RIVES LLP
William H. Holmes, Partner, STOEL RIVES LLP
Jennifer H. Martin, Partner, STOEL RIVES LLP
Marcus Wood, Partner, STOEL RIVES LLP
To register: http://infocastinc.com/index.php/conference/255
Upcoming Webinar: Stimulus Bill Part 3 - The DOE Loan Guarantee Program for Clean Energy Projects
We invite you to join us for the third installment of our complimentary Stimulus Bill Webinar series. This session will focus on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program, which received nearly $6 billion in Stimulus Bill funding. The DOE recently redesigned the program in an effort to bring private capital back to large-scale renewable energy project development. Since the release of the Financial Institution Partnership Program (FIPP) solicitation, there have been some promising initial signs with several prominent U.S. and European-based banks actively supporting projects.
Our panel of experts includes a current DOE program official with knowledge of the program's intricacies, an investment banker who was a former director of the program and a Stoel Rives attorney who is assisting clients through the application process. The webinar will discuss the innovative and commercial programs, FIPP, the evolving rules for the program, the application process and the type of projects the program was developed to support.
Speakers:
Richard Corrigan, Senior Advisor, Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program
Walter S. Howes, Former Director of DOE's Loan Guarantee Program, current Managing Partner, Verdigris Capital LLC
Graham Noyes, Former VP of Sales and Business Development, Imperium Renewables LLC; current Attorney, Stoel Rives LLP
When:
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
10 a.m. Pacific; 11 a.m. Mountain; noon Central; 1 p.m. Eastern
Cost:
Complimentary
Register:
Register online at http://www.stoel.com/webcasts
Show me the Money: Webinar Explaining the Wind Turbine Drivetrain FOA
About a month ago we issued an alert regarding a $45 million funding opportunity announcement ("FOA") for the development of a wind turbine drivetrain testing facility (alert available here).
Today, the Department of Energy ("DOE") announced that they are hosting a webinar regarding this FOA. The webinar will be held July 30, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern. Through this webinar, DOE will provide a brief overview of the FOA and will participate in a question and answer period. However, all questions must be submitted in advance (by July 27, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern) to windDynamometer@go.doe.gov
To attend this webinar, register in advance by clicking here.
