Renewables

CLEANTECH AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

Supporting the journey to global targets

Bird & Bird’s involvement in renewable energy and cleantech forms part of our longstanding and broadly based work in the energy and utilities sectors.

Our Renewables & Cleantech Team advise commercial and public sector organisations on a wide range of legal issues within the renewables and cleantech sector including advice on the use of carbon credits and trading schemes, solar and wind feed-in tariffs, unbundling of European energy supplies and protection and maximisation of intellectual property assets.

Our clients include many organisations who are developing or investing in projects and technological solutions to the challenges presented by the combined forces of climate change and energy security. We advise these clients on a wide range of issues such as corporate work, projects, intellectual property, regulatory, commercial contracts and dispute resolution.

Our dedicated renewables & cleantech team acts for:

  • Developers
  • Landowners
  • Funders, including banks and private equity
  • Local authorities / Government bodies
  • EPC contractors
  • Corporate purchasers of renewable energy

We provide advice to clients working in:

  • Onshore and offshore wind
  • Solar
  • Biomass
  • Wave and tidal power
  • Hydro power
  • Energy from waste
  • Transmission systems including subsea cables
  • Carbon capture and trading.

Our team also has a passion for advising on the hot topics that arise in this fast paced and changing sector, including:

  • Corporate Power Purchase Agreements (Corporate PPAs)
  • Integration of storage with renewables technologies
  • Innovative renewables financing structures, such as vendor financing and forward financing
  • Grid sharing arrangements
  • Regulatory advice, for example renewable benefits eligibility or financial services regulation of corporate PPAs
  • Technology development agreements.

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Accolades

An experienced renewables team across legal departments - enabling a full commercially focused legal service level.

Legal 500 UK, 2025

Matt Bonass has a deep understanding of the renewables' industry - enabling a commercially focused approach to any legal advice.

Legal 500 UK, 2025

A well-structured team that puts together all the necessary competences to assist a client in this sector. Their experience in project financing is very helpful in the development process of renewable projects.

Legal 500 Europe, 2024

Experienced, qualified, up to date on what is happening in the market, and down to earth.

Legal 500 Europe, 2024

The team at Bird & Bird are not only good at what they do, but they also take the effort to deepen their knowledge of the industry they are working on/with. So as clients, it will be easier when speaking in industry lingo.

Legal 500 APAC, 2024

Bird & Bird has excellent knowledge of both the UK and EU energy sectors.

Chambers UK, 2025

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Bird & Bird advises Terrenus Energy on Green Financing

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Bird & Bird advised Energa Green Development on the acquisition of Szybowice wind power generator project

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Bird & Bird advises Jinko Power on acquisition of energy storage project company and on successful capacity auction participation

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Bird & Bird advises Energa on purchasing an SPV developing new hybrid renewable sources

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