In today’s highly competitive marketplace, you may face numerous obstacles, including: capital constraints, utility business practices, utility interconnection, and research, development and demonstration. Cogeneration facilities, which produce both electrical energy and thermal (heat) energy for use in industrial processes, present opportunities for many organizations.

At Dentons, our global energy practice has award-winning lawyers with the experience to advise and represent you in a myriad of agreements and regulatory filing and reporting requirements, including:

• Development, deployment, and operation of all generation facilities, including cogeneration units
• Market-based rate applications
• Reactive power revenue filings
• Market- and cost-based power sales agreements
• Steam/heat supply agreements
• Interconnection agreements
• Operating and maintenance agreements

We can assist you in structuring cogeneration and other energy-related transactions, as well as in negotiating and drafting agreements that provide for cogeneration facilities and services. We help owners in navigating interconnection queues and in challenging network upgrade cost assignments and financial transmission right allocations. 

You can also rely on Dentons to guide you through an array of other legal matters regarding cogeneration, including:

• Land acquisition
• Environmental compliance and permitting
• Regulatory dispensations for on-site generation
• Eligibility for efficiency/low-carbon subsidies or support mechanisms
• Land use entitlements
• Zoning and regulatory matters

Let us help you make energy production more efficient.