Presented by
Falconbury
Renewable Energy Law and Regulation: Legal foundations for the renewable energy era In-house Training
This indepth course covers the key challenges of evolving renewable energy laws and regulations that are impacting both developed and developing countries on the quest for net zero.
- Format: Live online
- CPD: 12 hours for your records
- Certificate of completion
Course overview
Are you ready for the legal realities of the renewable energy revolution? This course will help you build you expertise in energy law and give you a strategic head start in a rapidly changing sector.
The renewable energy sector represents one of the fastest-growing areas of legal practice, driven by urgent climate imperatives, technological innovation and massive global investment. This comprehensive 2-day course provides legal professionals, policy makers, and industry practitioners with essential knowledge to navigate the complex legal framework shaping the renewable energy transition.
As governments worldwide commit to net-zero targets and energy independence, the renewable energy sector faces unprecedented legal challenges. From securing government subsidies to managing supply chain complexities, from infrastructure disputes to competition law compliance - the legal landscape is evolving rapidly and becoming increasingly complex.
This course addresses the critical knowledge gap between traditional energy law and the emerging legal frameworks governing renewable energy development, financing and operation.
Key topics covered include:
- Strategic global perspective: Understand how renewable energy law differs between developed and developing markets, and how these differences create opportunities and challenges for international projects.
- Infrastructure and supply chain: Master the legal complexities of renewable energy infrastructure development, from land use conflicts to supply chain management. Learn how storage technologies are reshaping legal relationships and creating new regulatory challenges that affect project viability.
- Critical legal risk management: Understand key legal areas that can make or break renewable energy projects - government subsidies, constraint payments, performance obligations, and price escalation mechanisms.
- Financial and regulatory frameworks: Navigate the complex world of renewable energy incentives, from Feed-in Tariffs to auction mechanisms, and the disconnect between public policy objectives and private financing realities.
- Competition and market dynamics: Gain insights into how competition law applies to renewable energy markets, including state aid regulations, market integration challenges, and the risks of vertical integration in an evolving energy landscape.
This intensive programme combines expert instruction with practical case studies drawn from real-world renewable energy projects. Interactive sessions ensure you can immediately apply legal concepts to current market challenges, while comparative analysis helps you understand how different jurisdictions approach similar issues.
By the end of this programme, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of the legal framework governing renewable energy development, the skills to identify and manage key legal risks, and the knowledge to advise effectively on complex renewable energy transactions and policy initiatives.
Whether you're structuring deals, advising on regulatory compliance, or shaping policy, this course provides the legal foundation essential for success in the renewable energy sector.
Benefits of attending
By attending this event you will:
- Gain an understanding of the key challenges and impacts of evolving renewable energy laws that are impacting and influencing both developed and developing countries on the quest for net zero
- Become familiar with the key issues and problems regarding the establishment of infrastructure and what this means for the renewable energy supply chain
- Consider the implications of some of the operational issues and legal underpinning of mechanisms such as ‘constraint payments’ and ‘carve out’ options within contracts
- Understand how some governments incentivise the growth of renewable energy
- Have awareness of competition law and its ramifications for the renewable energy industry
Who should attend?
This course has been specially designed for:
- Legal professionals advising on renewable energy projects
- In-house counsel for energy companies and developers
- Government officials and policy makers
- Financial institutions and investors in renewable energy
- Consultants and advisors to the renewable energy sector
- Project managers and commercial professionals in energy transition
- Business development managers
- Contracts engineers and managers
- COOs, CEOs and Directors
- Compliance officers
- Procurement/Tendering managers
- Exploration managers
- Supply chain managers
This course will cover:
A global overview of renewable energy law: developed countries vs. developing countries
- The question of energy security
- Removing the dependence on hydrocarbons – a vital strategy for the future
- Diversification of the power supply – a potential competitive advantage at a national level?
- The need for technological integration
- The impact of developing markets on renewable energy law
- The impact of developed markets on renewable energy law
- The impact of domestic market changes on renewable energy law
- Case study: literature review/overview of some key international issues in renewable energy law
Infrastructure and the supply chain
- The infrastructure challenge – the scope for conflict between different technologies and limited land
- Managing the renewable energy supply chain
- Storage implications - where infrastructure and the supply chain meet
- The growing importance of the procurement function within renewable energy supply chains
- Location of generation facilities and proximity to markets
- Case study: Assessing legal issues relative to infrastructure establishment
Key legal issues: part 1
- Government subsidies and disputes
- ‘Constraint payments’ – a loaded gun?
- The question of ‘carve out’s’
Key legal issues: part 2
- ROW’s; licenses and other permissions
- Performance and delay issues
- Price escalation clauses and consequential loss
- Case study
Renewable energy incentives
- The disconnect between public and private financing of renewable energy projects
- Feed in Tariffs and public benefit funds
- FIT vs. Auctioning
- Designing a FIT – not a straight forward process
Competition law
- State aid and protectionism
- Integration of new market entrants
- Efficient competition within the market between incumbents
- The potential danger posed by vertical integration
- Managing congestion
- The issue of Energy Poverty
- Case study
Chris Lennon
Stone Falcon - Corporate & Legal Consulting
Christopher Lennon is the Director of Stone Falcon Corporate and Legal Consulting Ltd – a company that works internationally based in Scotland, UK. Chris has 30 years’ experience within the oil and gas industry – initially working offshore on rigs in the UK and Norway before becoming involved with projects and supply chain issues.
He helped establish an anti-corrosion production facility in Aberdeen for casing tubulars – running the production facility initially before going on to create and manage the supply chain. He has set up distribution networks supporting the North Sea E&P industry within Aberdeen. He has managed (and continues to do so) a variety of ‘special projects’ internationally – normally strategic or change management focussed. He has worked/consulted extensively within the field of supply chain management – is a contracts specialist and an international commercial arbitrator.
He was empanelled as both an Arbitrator and a Mediator at the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC); has the Freedom of the City of London; is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators. He holds an MBA and LLB from the University of Aberdeen, as well as the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators DipICArb. He has over 22 years teaching experience including a number of universities across a wide range of subjects.
Run Renewable Energy Law and Regulation: Legal foundations for the renewable energy era Live online for your team
Pricing from:
- GBP 950
- Per attendee, based on 10 attendees
- Course tailored to your requirements
- At your choice of location, or online
We can customise this course to your requirements and deliver it on an in-house basis for any number of your staff or colleagues.
Contact our in-house training experts Aleksandra Beer and Yesim Nurko to discuss your requirements:
