Brian leads the firm’s Renewable Energy Industry Team and primarily focuses on advising clients on project development, including utility scale-solar projects, landfill gas to energy projects and anaerobic digester facilities.
He and his colleagues are currently involved in the development of over 20 different solar facilities in KY with an aggregate capacity of over 2 GW. This work includes advising clients on all aspects of the development of utility-scale solar projects, including the following:
• Real Estate – drafting and negotiating leases, easements, purchase and sale agreements, resolving zoning and land use issues and addressing surface and mineral rights, and title insurance
• Incentives – structuring local and state tax incentives such as KEIA and Industrial Revenue Bonds
• Tax – advising on federal tax credits, ad valorem property taxes, sales and use tax liability and related exemptions and franchise tax of public service companies
• Regulatory – filing and processing applications for construction certificates from the Electric Generation and Transmission Siting Board
• Financing – negotiating and closing tax equity and debt facilities for the construction of projects
In addition to his solar development practice, Brian has negotiated landfill gas rights agreements, gas purchase agreements on the NAESB form, interconnect agreements for injection of renewable natural gas, and marketing agreements for the sale of environmental attributes from renewable natural gas. He has advised clients on all phases of renewable energy project development, including site identification and acquisition, obtaining zoning approvals, financing, community engagement, tax credit and incentive procurement, and carbon accounting under the GHG protocol.