Renewable Energy Law and Regulation: Legal foundations for the renewable energy era In-house Training

Course overview

Are you ready for the legal realities of the renewable energy revolution? This training 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 training 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 training 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 course 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 training course, 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.

This training course is part of our Commercial & Business Law Training Course collection which has been designed for the in-house lawyer.

Benefits of attending

By attending this training course 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 training 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