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Renewables

  • Overview
  • Experience
  • Market recognition

Renewable energy is providing millions of people in Africa with access to electricity for the first time. In Kenya, the government aims to achieve universal access by 2020 through geothermal, hydro, wind and solar projects using a combination of grid extension, mini-grid and off-grid solutions.  

Our lawyers have experience in the renewable energy market, advising sponsors, developers, financiers and regulatory bodies on transactions across the spectrum of renewable energy technologies, including hydro, solar, onshore and offshore wind, energy-from-waste, biomass and biofuels. 

We have hands-on, practical experience of delivering each stage of a project, including: planning, permitting, joint ventures and other corporate matters, structuring equity investment, developing project documents (such as power-purchase agreements (PPAs), government letters of support, engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) and operation and maintenance (O&M) arrangements, as well as project finance.

Capabilities

  • Commercial structuring

  • Financing

  • Negotiation

  • Project agreements

  • Risk analysis and mitigation

Experience has included advising:

  • The lenders on a 50 MW wind power project in Kajiado, Kenya.
  • The lenders on a 40 MW solar power project being developed in Kesses, Kenya.
  • The lenders on a 40 MW solar power project in Malindi, Kenya. 
  • The developer of a 100 MW wind farm located in the Kajiado County, Kenya. 
  • The project sponsors in two 40 MW solar power projects in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya.
  • A client on a 30 MW solar power project in Makindu, Makueni County, Kenya.
  • The senior lenders on the development and construction of a 140 MW geothermal power plant and related facilities in the Rift Valley region in Kenya and the sale of capacity and energy to the Kenya Power and Lighting Company.
  • The sponsors in a 40 MW solar power project in Witu, Lamu County, Kenya.
  • A power company on the financing and development of four run-of-river hydro-electric power generation projects.
  • A developer on the development of 2000 MW solar power projects, being undertaken in phases.

  • Ranked Tier 1 in Projects & Infrastructure (The Legal 500 2019)

  • Ranked Band 2 in Projects & Infrastructure (Chambers & Partners 2019)