Anaerobic Digestion We are well placed to advise in this growing market, being at the forefront of the developing anaerobic digestion sector, being well known in the food manufacturing and agribusiness sectors and having done a lot of work on landowning "producer groups" and food waste contracts.
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Waste Contracts/Projects We advise on a wide range of waste and fuel supply contracts across a number of technologies. This includes advising on waste PFI/PPPs for a mixture of local authorities, contractors and funders.
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Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Our EHS team is one of the best known in the UK, with experience in all areas including policy, strategy, operation and transactional advice as well as incident response services, including trespass and protester response.
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Property We have one of the largest property teams in the UK acting for a variety of clients, developers, investors, landowners and funders in the energy sector.
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Planning We have one of the leading planning practices in the UK, with substantial experience of energy projects, including numerous projects in biomass, CCGT, small hydro and wind, together with grid connections.
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Construction Key to many renewable energy projects are construction, procurement and O&M arrangements. Our highly recognised team in this area has advised on in-vessel composting, biomass plants, anaerobic digestion and other traditional renewables projects.
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Carbon Law We have significant expertise in the field of carbon law, carbon offsetting and emissions trading, having advised DEFRA (now DECC) and other public and private sector clients on a range of aspects of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (the UK Government's new cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme).
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Grid and Power We offer considerable experience on grid connection issues relevant to renewable energy projects. We have advised extensively on issues surrounding grid connections to distribution networks and the transmission network for projects of varying sizes up to 3,200MW.
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Renewable Energy Projects Our experienced team, drawn from across the firm, is able to assist developers and operators in assessing the risks and understanding the issues which need to be addressed to bring renewable energy projects to fruition.
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Energy and Utilities We are a leader in Energy law, having won Energy/Infrastructure Team of the Year at The Lawyer Awards 2009. We can advise you on all aspects of energy law including: sale and purchase of generated energy, issues surrounding connections to distribution and transmission networks and negotiating energy supply contracts for energy users.
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Nuclear Burges Salmon is widely regarded as one of the leading law firms in respect of nuclear law expertise. Our team has grown over the past decade to become the UK's largest dedicated nuclear team and one of only a handful of nationally-recognised expert nuclear practices with an established reputation and presence at the sector's forefront.
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Regulatory We have significant experience with both the development of regulatory frameworks and advice on the impact of working within proposed and existing frameworks.
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