The renewables market brings more risk – governmental, financial, operational, and legal. Liskow is the ideal team to help mitigate risk because we are heavy industry veterans with decades of experience guiding clients through regulatory changes, complex market expansion, and new technologies.
Overview
We work with domestic and international clients of all sizes, from traditional energy companies that have expanded their portfolios to include renewable energy projects, to companies that work solely in the renewables sector, to companies exploring the U.S. market.
Offshore wind projects: handling complexities for every phase
Offshore wind projects face numerous challenges including administrative changes to renewable leasing programs, lengthy permitting delays, supply chain gaps, securing offtake agreements at economic terms, and interconnection and transmission limitations, all in addition to increased legal exposure and litigation. These hurdles have the potential to stall project development from planning through construction and operations. Liskow is prepared to navigate and minimize all these risks.
The complex regulatory regime for offshore wind is overseen by both federal and state agencies and is still developing. Nonetheless, since the statutes and regulatory frameworks that apply to offshore oil and gas projects also apply to renewables projects, Liskow has the relationships in place to move offshore wind projects forward. We work daily with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) on Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) leasing and operational permitting issues, as well as the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). We advise on all manner of statutory and regulatory compliance issues, including OCSLA as well as the Coastal Zone Management Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Oil Pollution Act, Jones Act and various other requirements.