Our Expertise
The law and regulation of the electric power industry is highly specialized and complex. Effective legal services require an in-depth and holistic understanding of the various legal, technical, and commercial aspects of the industry.
Real Expertise
L&A’s expertise in the power industry is grounded on years of active and close involvement in a wide variety of projects, ranging from large-scale baseload power plants to small-scale rural electrification projects, in all stages, from project development to operations and maintenance.
L&A’s expertise is enhanced by its unique experience of in-depth participation in all sectors of the industry – generation, supply, transmission, and distribution. L&A’s experience significantly includes the comprehensive management of the legal aspects of all regulatory and tariff matters in the entire transmission sector, as well as various transactions between the grid operator and the industry participants.
Beyond Legal
With its experience and comprehensive understanding of the industry, L&A provides valuable advise to clients on a broad range of technical and commercial matters.
L&A advises on tariff structuring and analysis, as well as tariff justification before the regulatory authorities. L&A provides inputs in various technical matters such as plant configuration, grid impact of new capacity and loads, plant to grid connection configuration, and asset classification. L&A also advises on commercial transactions from project finance to marketing strategies.
Services Rendered
Here are some of the services currently being provided by L&A.
- Project development
- Engineering, procurement and construction contracts
- Permits and licenses
- Regulatory approvals
- Power supply agreements
- Power rate structuring, analysis and justifications
- Biddings for power supply
- Operations and maintenance contracts
- Spot market participation
- Off-grid electrification and microgrids
- Renewable energy
- Feed-in-Tariff/Green Energy Auction systems
- Renewable energy service contracts
- Biddings for generation assets
- Distributed energy resources
- Connection configuration and approvals
- Regulatory approval for distribution system capital expenditures
- Conduct of bidding for power supply
- Distribution and transmission asset reclassification
- Transmission service agreements
- Regulatory approval for transmission system capital expenditures
- Ancillary services procurement agreements
- Power industry regulations and policy
- Project finance
- Retail electricity supply
- Marketing strategy
- Dispute resolution and litigation
- Direct customer connections
- Prepaid retail electricity service