Renewable Energy

Recent increases in the cost of fossil fuels, significant advances in renewable energy technology, implementation of state renewable energy portfolio requirements and expanded tax and other incentives have combined to make renewable energy technologies a realistic alternative in many settings. The Energy, Infrastructure & Project Finance, and Climate-Related Business and Technology Groups at Sullivan & Worcester LLP provide the full range of skills necessary to ensure that a renewable energy project develops from the proposal stage into a completed project and continues as a viable market participant.

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Representative Client Work

• Working with the City of New Orleans, Louisiana in establishing its energy efficiency program, “Energy Smart New Orleans” by helping to evaluate the feasibility of options, including renewable credits, distributed generation from local solar and other renewable energy sources, green-building initiatives, consumer education and incentives and the full range of available funding mechanisms, while working closely with the United States Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Providing advice regarding the structuring of a financing by a city-sponsored non-profit organization that created a program to significantly reduce energy and water use and GHG emissions in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Representing a clean-tech startup from the water industry, in raising over $10 million from venture capital funds

• Advising Konarka Technologies, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of flexible, organic photovoltaic (solar) films, in a $45 million preferred stock financing and commercial partnership arrangement with subsidiaries of Total, S.A., and a $20 million preferred stock financing and commercial partnership arrangement with a large Japanese multi-national company