We are a law firm dedicated exclusively to renewable energy. Founded in 2013, we act for developers, operators, funders and landowners across onshore wind, solar and battery storage, and we do not act in anything else.
Most firms that advertise renewable energy work run it as one desk inside a general commercial practice. The difference shows in the questions that fall between disciplines: a consent condition that quietly breaks a connection date, a lease term that will not survive a refinancing, an accreditation that does not carry through a repowering. Those are the questions we were built around.
What we do
We advise on the whole life of a renewable energy asset, from land assembly and option agreements through planning consent, grid connection, construction contracts and funding, to operation, repowering and sale. Our team currently manages more than 3.5 GW of grid connections across battery storage, solar and onshore wind, and has handled over 2,500 connection applications.
Clients instruct us for four things in particular: securing land rights that will withstand diligence; getting a project through consent with conditions it can actually live with; obtaining and protecting a grid connection; and holding the regulatory position once the asset is operating.
Why a dedicated firm makes a difference
Renewable energy projects fail at the joins. The planning consent is obtained by one adviser, the connection agreement negotiated by another, and the funding diligence run by a third, and nobody owns the interactions between them. A condition requiring a particular construction sequence can make an agreed energisation date unachievable. An option agreement drafted without reference to the connection offer can leave a developer paying for land it cannot build on.
We run these matters from one instruction and one team, which means the joins are ours to manage rather than yours to coordinate. It also means the person advising on the lease has read the connection offer.
Recognition
Energy Law Unlimited is ranked in Chambers UK 2027 in band 4 for Energy and Natural Resources: Power, Renewables and Alternative Energy in Scotland.
The technologies we work across
Onshore wind. New build, repowering and life extension, including the consenting and accreditation questions that arise when an operating asset is upgraded.
Solar. Ground-mounted and rooftop schemes, co-location with storage, and the land and grid questions that decide whether a site is viable.
Battery storage. Standalone and co-located BESS, where the consenting route, the connection position and the revenue stack all have to work together.
Recent success
- Led planning on over 3 GW of renewable energy across Scotland
- Wayleaves and property rights managed for over 1 GW of renewable energy projects
- Grid connection advice that saved a client over £20 million on a single project, and significantly reduced the connection timeline
Often instructed alongside
Grid connection agreements and DNO applications: the connection the whole project timetable rests on.
Planning consent and environmental assessment: securing a consent whose conditions the project can build to.
Land rights for renewable projects: options, leases, wayleaves and servitudes that survive funder diligence.
Ofgem, the Grid Code and regulatory compliance: holding the position once the asset is running.
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