For purchasers like businesses and government agencies, renewable energy is a cost-effective way to hedge energy costs and reduce your carbon footprint – almost always realizing immediate financial savings. For sellers like project developers and investors, renewable energy projects have been providing solid, reliable returns for over two decades. The centerpiece for both groups is the purchase and sale agreement.

Climate mitigation and adaptation strategies almost always involve energy and infrastructure projects. Structuring and negotiating key contracts that hold these projects together is a core expertise of Climate Edge.

Project development in this space requires complex structuring to ensure the different aspects fit together within a series of complex regulatory and economic parameters.

Buying and selling renewable energy and other clean infrastructure assets requires an understanding of a unique set of risks. Buyers need to be aware of the specific performance requirements and risks associated with different technologies, the risks of which tend to be very different than more typical energy and infrastructure projects. Sellers need to understand the concerns buyers will have and how to explain or allocate those risks in financially sustainable ways.

Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) Planning and Implementation is becoming a critical component of a company’s value to investors. It is simply not enough today to maximize profits without acknowledging the impact you have on the environment and our society.
Developing your ESG plan requires a critical, honest and comprehensive dive into your business, its inputs as well as its downstream impacts.

Change does not happen without the necessary financial resources. A combination of structured debt, equity investment, and tax benefits all come together to make sustainability, energy, and climate change projects viable.
Creativity and non-traditional approaches to these structures are creating new opportunities for investors and lenders to earn sustainable and environmentally-friendly returns. Climate Edge negotiates and structures investments ranging from simple debt to complicated partnership-flip structures.

The importance of real estate issues in this industry cannot be overstated. Whether you are a landowner leasing property to a developer, a customer having on-site solar installed at your location, or a developer building a large infrastructure project, real estate is a foundational issue that warrants careful attention.