Alternative Energy Law

Representative Matters Video

Nexsen Pruet’s Alternative Energy Practice Group includes attorneys with direct experience helping new and expanding businesses, both large and small, throughout the country.  Our firm is uniquely positioned through its industry knowledge, as well as practical experience, to partner with alternative and renewable energy industries as they seek to grow their business by providing sustainable and environmentally-friendly sources of fuel and power generation.  Our practice addresses all aspects of starting and running a successful alternative energy company with a broad base of skills that ensures we bring what those companies want – and, more importantly, what they need – even before they ask.

Representative Legal Experience

Our firm's clients include national, regional, and local business, and our partner list covers the same areas as well as international firms found in virtually every economic sector on the planet.  Members of the alternative energy team have provided legal services including the following:

• Major alternative energy initiatives responsible for installation of wind and solar farms throughout the country
• Environmental permitting and regulatory compliance assistance for many industry sectors, including bioenergy facilities, waste recovery, and recycling facilities
• Intellectual Property for large and small wind energy producers, including the largest producer of wind energy systems in the United States
• Intellectual property for biomass producers and material sciences technology companies
• Lending consortium on $98 million credit facilities for construction of largest ethanol production plan on the East coast
• Compliance Counsel for the largest energy efficiency project in South Carolina
• Compliance Counsel for smart grid, battery and biomass projects
• Structured financial transactions, including representing national and regional organizations in commercial and corporate lending activities

Representative Industry Experience

The Alternative Energy team has vast hands-on industry experience.  Team members include attorneys with experience as a former banker, state agency chairman, public utilities commissioner, Ph.D. chemist, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and scientist. Team members from our Intellectual Property group alone have more than 140 years of industry experience.  Our experience includes:

• Electrical engineer for 10 years at an electric utility company, handling power systems, transmission, and Smart Grid technology
• Material scientist
• Former banker at nation’s largest farm credit bank
• Former director of state revenue department
• Former legal counsel to Governor
• Former commissioner of state utilities commission
• Former state deputy securities commissioner
• Former assistant general counsel for state environmental agency 

Full Service, Full Resources

With more than 30 practice areas, Nexsen Pruet can significantly leverage the skills of our Alternative Energy attorneys to assist with business organization, financing, intellectual property development and protection, litigation, government relations, regulatory compliance, interconnection, environmental, land use, real estate, licensing, mergers, joint ventures, public-private collaboration, labor and employment, and tax.  Nexsen Pruet is one of the largest law firms in the Southeast, with more than 170 attorneys.  Founded in 1945, the firm has earned a national reputation for professional, principled service.  These values have helped us build and sustain long-term relationships founded on trust, responsiveness, legal skill, community responsibility, and unyielding integrity.

Alternative Energy One Sheet.pdf 

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