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Energy & Renewable Energy
Renewable Fuels
We know the complicated landscape of renewable energy from the inside. Our renewable energy attorney group has extensive experience, dating from the infancy of ethanol in the 1970’s, across a full range of industries and issues. We represent owners, lenders, investors, agri-producers, developers and other key participants in all forms of the renewable energy business.
Our attorneys regularly work in many key areas in renewable fuels. They are adept at routing clients safely around potential regulatory roadblocks. Issues handled by attorneys include:
- Entity formation; acquisitions and mergers
- Equity investments; community-based investment, public and private offerings, SEC and state “Blue Sky” regulations
- Financing vehicles; traditional credit agreements to loan syndication, TIF financing and leasing options
- Site selection and acquisition
- Technology licensing and purchase
- Construction contracting
- Land use issues
- Complex tax and tax credit regulations; publicly traded partnership rules and other pitfalls
- Environmental compliance; pollution control devices, environmental permitting, water rights, wastewater issues, Phase I environmental assessments, impact statements
- Grain, fuel and marketable byproduct contracting
- Rail, truck and other transportation issues
- Work outs, insolvency and litigation
- Exit strategies
Wind Energy
Baird Holm represented the developer of Nebraska's first privately developed Community-Based Energy Development (C-BED) wind energy project, an 80 megawatt wind farm near Bloomfield, Nebraska, as well as the Laredo Ridge wind project near Petersburg, Nebraska. We also represented developer interests in the drafting and negotiation of Legislative Bill 1048, Nebraska's wind energy export legislation. Our experience in renewable energy projects allows us to offer practical advice in all areas critical to success in wind energy development, including:
- Siting and project formulation
- Leasing and landowner negotiations
- Zoning and land use regulation
- Federal and State environmental permitting
- Community-Based Energy Development (C-BED) and project structuring
- Power Purchase Agreements and Generator Interconnection Agreements
- Legislative and Lobbying
- Taxation
- FAA Permitting
- Financing
- Securities