Energy Turn Energy Challenges Into Innovation and Success
The energy landscape is shifting fast. Whether you're advancing renewable technologies, developing grid assets, pioneering alternative fuels, or navigating oil and gas complexities, you need a legal team that understands what's at stake. From lowering utility costs or building your own power plants, exploring hedges against rising electric rates, or handling litigation, regulatory, or government affairs work, Kilpatrick has the expertise to get it done.
Kilpatrick leads at the bleeding edge of the energy transition, supporting clients at every stage of this transformation. We bring strategic clarity to complex challenges, from carbon recapture ventures to maintaining a balanced portfolio that bridges today's demands with tomorrow's goals.
Our commitment is simple: understand your business deeply, solve problems creatively, and deliver results that move you forward. You demand a team as invested in your future as you are. Together with our clients, we're shaping what comes next in energy.
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Whatever Your Energy Challenge, We’re Ready
From solar fields to wind farms, from sustainable aviation fuel to next-generation nuclear, new energy projects are reinventing how the world powers itself. Kilpatrick serves the full spectrum of energy innovators such as project developers, data center developers, owners, contractors, investors, and public-sector entities. We guide energy developers from site acquisition through financing and regulatory compliance, advising battery energy storage systems (BESS) developers, utilities, and interested stakeholders on the commercial relationships that make grid assets, such as energy storage viable. We guide alternative fuels companies such as sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), marine fuels, and eFuels structure offtake agreements and scale globally. For renewable natural gas (RNG) and hydrogen ventures, we navigate development and financing across diverse feedstocks. In carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), we pioneer legal strategies for direct air capture and carbon credit structures worldwide. We bring decades of oil and gas infrastructure experience and advise on emerging nuclear technologies, including small module reactors (SMRs) and fusion. We are leaders in the biomass and biogas arenas with considerable regulatory, litigation, and transactional experience. Whatever your energy challenge, we're built to solve it alongside you.
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Your Partner in Powering What’s Next
Your energy challenges demand more than legal advice, they demand a solutions from team that understands the financial, regulatory, and operational complexities you face every day. Kilpatrick structures multi-billion-dollar financings, leveraging federal programs, tax-exempt bonds, and private capital to get projects funded. We maximize tax credits, Section 45Q incentives, and other federal and state programs to optimize your returns. With decades of experience advising on power development and regulatory matters, we counsel on joint ventures, deployment, sales agreements, lease agreements, interconnections, electric service agreements, and behind-the-fence power strategies. Our real estate and construction team handles everything from site acquisition and easements to engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) negotiations and mega-project disputes. Before Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), state commissions, and entities like Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), we protect your interests in rate cases and resource plans. On Capitol Hill and in statehouses, we advocate for policies that advance your investments. End to end, we're your partner in solving the next problem or taking advantage of the next opportunity.
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