Solar Project Due Diligence: Financial, Legal & Technical Best Practices

The “Solar Project Due Diligence: Financial, Legal & Technical Best Practices” symposium will focus on the core areas of due diligence for PV projects—mostly utility-scale, but also with broad applicability to commercial and other large distributed-scale—and provide a “blueprint” for their execution. It covers aspects of solar project development not tackled by instructional programs that focus strictly on financing and tax issues.

Nixon Peabody partner and co-leader of our Energy and Infrastructure Projects team Richard Cogen will be delivering a presentation titled “Project Determination: Setting the Compass Heading:”

• Classifications
  • Utility-scale
  • Commercial/Industrial
  • Residential portfolios
• Characteristics of financeable (vs non-financeable) projects
• Intent
  • Serve own load?
  • Generate primary revenue?
  • Generate supplemental revenue?
• Ownership
  • Wholly-owned and operated?
  • Wholly owned and leased?
  • Jointly owned and operated?
  • Jointly owned and leased?
  • “Package arrangement” with developer?
• Asset attributes
  • Standalone asset
  • Position in a larger portfolio
• CapEx

Nixon Peabody partner James Duffy will also be co-presenting “Project Contractual Relationships:”

• General structure
• PPA
• EPC
• Financing
• Transmission access and studies
• Interconnection agreement(s)
• Site and easements
• Permitting

For more information and to register, visit the EUCI website.