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Course Information
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    On-Demand

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

  • work Practice Area

    Energy

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Thursday, November 19, 2020

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

$347.00
CLE
ALL

This CLE course will provide energy counsel guidance on effective methods in financing energy storage projects and overcoming regulatory compliance challenges in deal structures. The panel will discuss key compliance challenges impacting energy storage, deal structures for financing and mitigating risks, and key tax considerations in developing and financing energy storage projects.

Faculty

Robert N. Freedman
Partner
Paul Hastings, LLP

Mr. Freedman focuses on finance and development, asset acquisitions and dispositions and complex work-outs and restructurings of infrastructure assets, internationally and in the U.S. He represents developers, lenders and other parties across the breadth of infrastructure sectors, including power, renewables and sustainable development, oil and gas (upstream and downstream) and transportation.

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Donna J. Bobbish
Of Counsel
Paul Hastings, LLP

Ms. Bobbish focuses on U.S. and international regulation of energy markets, transactions and project development, including power, natural gas and sustainable development. She advises clients with respect to energy regulatory issues and requirements arising in project finance and merger and acquisition transactions and in energy project development.

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Description

Energy storage can provide many benefits and play many roles, but it has not always fit neatly into a familiar legal landscape within the energy sector. Counsel must develop an understanding of the changing energy regulatory landscape, financing options, and deal structures to minimize risks to ensure the success of an energy storage project.

The continued success of the use of renewable energy for electrical power depends on the effective management of the variable output of wind, solar, and other alternative energy resources. Storing energy for later use when production is low is an essential element of the management of electrical systems. This fact has garnered a wave of battery-energy storage project financings and an increase in utility procurement of battery storage projects.

Investors and lenders intending to take advantage of the need for energy storage should be knowledgeable of the energy regulatory treatment of energy storage in certain jurisdictions and techniques in structuring deals to minimize risks.

Listen as our panel discusses recent federal and state developments in energy storage, overcoming regulatory compliance challenges, critical considerations in structuring transactions relating to the development and financing of energy storage projects, and related tax issues.

Outline

  1. Recent developments in energy storage project financing and procurement
  2. Energy storage contract structures and related issues
  3. Tax considerations in energy storage deal structures
  4. Regulatory obstacles and how to avoid them
  5. Best practices for energy storage project compliance

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • Understanding federal and state energy regulatory status of energy storage projects
  • Negotiating and diligencing key project contracts
  • Structuring and negotiating financing and investing terms