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    Renewable Energy

    With our Legally Green® mindset, we understand the policy shifts and technological advances that impact your industry and can help you deploy and finance clean energy solutions.

    /Overview

    As the advent of renewable technologies contributes to an increasingly decarbonized grid, our Energy team helps companies successfully develop and deploy solar, wind, geothermal waste-to-energy, and other renewable energy projects.

    We understand that regulatory certainty paves the way for smart investment decisions, and we’re on the frontlines monitoring both state and federal changes that impact the clean energy market. This enables us to guide our clients through the constantly evolving legislation and regulations.

    Whether we’re representing a large solar developer setting up a community solar facility or helping a global investment firm with the siting and permitting of a large wind project, we serve as the trusted legal advisor to clients shaping the future of renewable energy.

    /Representative Experience

    • Biomass Electric Generating Facility: Represented the investor in the second tranche of an investment of new market tax credits (NMTCs) and renewable energy tax credits (RETCs) financing the facility in Pepeekeo, Hawaii
    • Renewable Energy Solar Project: Represented client as tax equity counsel in the closing of a 108-MW solar project in North Carolina. The 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) is one of the first awarded under Duke Energy’s Competitive Procurement of Renewable Energy (CPRE) Program; based on the expected annual energy production and the Solar Energy Industries Association’s data, the project could provide enough energy for about 15,000 homes in its first year of operation alone and will create approximately 300 jobs during the facility’s construction and operation.

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    • Nixon Peabody has been named a Tier 1 National firm for Energy Law in the 2025 edition of Best Law Firms®.
    • Ranked in Chambers USA for Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy.

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    • James F. Duffy

      Partner
      • Boston
      • Office:+1 617.345.1129
      • jduffy@nixonpeabody.com
      James F. Duffy
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      • Washington DC
      • Office:+1 202.585.8289
        Mobile:+1 202.716.4798
      • mjgoldman@nixonpeabody.com
      Michael J. Goldman
    • Forrest David Milder

      Senior Counsel
      • Boston
      • Office:+1 617.345.1055
      • fmilder@nixonpeabody.com
      Forrest  David Milder
    • Gary A. Band

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      • Washington DC
      • Office:+1 202.585.8809
      • gband@nixonpeabody.com
      Gary A. Band
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      • New York City
      • Office:+1 212.940.3182
        Mobile:+1 917.886.5967
      • ssinger@nixonpeabody.com
      Scott R. Singer
    • Barry Carrigan

      Partner
      • Rochester
      • Office:+1 585.263.1591
      • bcarrigan@nixonpeabody.com
      Barry Carrigan
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