Purchasers

Buying renewable energy, carbon offsets and other environmental products are a key part of your environmental strategy. These are ventures with unanticipated as well as unexplored risks. 

 

What We Provide:

Climate Edge lawyers can unearth the risks and pitfalls that inevitably arise when migrating from traditional to renewable energy resources and suppliers. Knowing what to anticipate, what to avoid and where to hedge, the Climate Edge team will negotiate environmental product supply contracts, power purchase agreements (PPAs), virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs), and other contracts that are specifically crafted to mitigate your short and long-term risks. 

 

You Can Expect:

Sustainability: Each transaction is unique to each client. It is important to understand your specific goals and develop transactions that fit those specific goals. 

Creativity:   Sustainability, energy and climate change initiatives are at the forefront of industry change.  With our experience and success in addressing failure modes, Climate Edge’s ability to creatively assess your transactions and identify risks and solutions is critical to your success.  

Experience: Our attorneys have been on the edge of new transactions for most if not the entirety of their careers. We negotiated some of the first Virtual Power Purchase Agreements, some of the earliest on-site energy storage and micro-grid contracts as well as new agreements directly targeting net-zero carbon emissions. Consistently being at the leading edge of these transactions provides a unique set of experiences that can be applied to new and evolving areas.

Partnership: The legal skills required to negotiate your sustainability-centered purchasing agreements are often beyond the core-skills of your in-house legal team - and there is no need for you to invest in maintaining those non-core skills in-house. At Climate Edge, we center our representation on your needs. How do you need to interact with us? We can be as integrated into your organization as needed, providing levels of access and cooperation on par with your in-house team.

 

Representative Matters:

  • Advise client on energy acquisition and transition strategy to achieve zero net carbon emissions

  • Advise client on competitive electricity procurement process for India facility

  • Advise client on comprehensive strategy to transition natural gas usage to renewable natural gas

  • Negotiate contracts for the installation of EV charging stations on client properties

  • Advise local governments on climate change policies and alternative compliance paths

  • Advise client on alternative paths and contracts to achieve ESG goals 

  • Negotiate contracts for the purchase and sale of renewable electricity and energy storage for utility-scale projects

  • Negotiate contracts for the purchase and sale of renewable electricity and energy storage for on-site generation

  • Negotiate direct access electricity contracts and virtual power purchase agreements with and without battery storage for retail electricity users

  • Negotiate contracts for the purchase and sale of renewable natural gas from landfills, dairy and swine sources

  • Negotiate contracts for the purchase of California Carbon Allowances and Offsets and voluntary compliance credits

  • Negotiate contracts for the installation and operation of micro-grids

  • Negotiate purchase and sale agreements for Environmental Attributes, including Renewable Energy Credits, Renewable Thermal Credits, Renewable Identification Numbers and Low Carbon Fuel Standard credits