Kean Miller has extensive experience in the development, construction, permitting, regulatory and operational aspects of alternative energy projects in Louisiana.  Our team has handled site acquisitions, economic development and state tax incentives, business and corporate matters, financing mechanisms, electric supply agreements, permitting, environmental compliance, labor and employment issues, state and local tax, construction matters, and insurance and insurance coverage disputes for some of Louisiana newest facilities.  Our Utility Regulatory team has the depth and experience to counsel clients on a variety of issues associated with alternative energy including interconnection agreements and arrangements, and the analysis of purchased power rates and avoided costs.

Representative Alternative Energy Projects:

• Representation of a biofuels development with regard to economic development incentives, industrial real estate acquisitions, corporate documentation, environmental permitting, and governmental agency relations.  The new biofuel facility will be located in Harahan, Louisiana.  Our client is a diversified biofuels technology company that harnesses the power of innovation, science and technology to enhance the world’s energy sustainability.

• Representation of green fuels refiner in connection with the development of an ethanol production facility in Louisiana that will produce over 100 million gallons of ethanol per year.  The company produces ethanol from sugar cane and sweet sorghum crops and has three facilities in Louisiana.   
  

• Representation of the United States’ leading operator of rice hull combustion power plants, which utilize a environmentally-friendly biomass waste product, rice hulls, to produce energy.

• Representation of an ethanol development company pursuing the construction of over a 100 MMGPY facility in Louisiana in the areas of energy and contract negotiation.

• Representation of a client in connection with the development of a new facility located in Red River, Parish.  The company develops and commercializes innovative technologies to sustain the viability of coal as a critical national resource. They provide cost-effective products to reduce emissions, increase efficiency and improve the competitive position of their customers.

• Representation of two separate pet-coke gasification projects (one for chemical production and one for syngas production)  with respect to environmental permitting, CO2 marketing for EOR, pipeline regulatory, environmental impact analysis, and assistance with other aspects of project financing and development.

• Project finance counsel, industrial real estate counsel, and environmental regulatory counsel for a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) regasification receiving terminal in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The facility will process 2.6 billion cubic feet per day.

• Project counsel to a Fortune 500 company in connection with cooperative endeavor agreements with the State of Louisiana for the development of a new facility in Southwest Louisiana that will manufacture and distribute industrial parts for the nuclear energy industry.

• Project counsel to a chemical refiner in connection with the conversion of a facility to mercury-free chlor-alkali process in Louisiana.