About Danielle Jones
Dani is an energy and resources specialist with a particular focus on green energy infrastructure development projects, acquisitions and divestments, as well as bespoke energy contracting. She has acted for a range of private sector and government clients on innovative and strategic transactions.
Dani’s relevant experience includes advising:
- BESS/hybrid offtake arrangements: both developers and offtakers in relation to innovative offtaking structures from facilities with a storage component, including virtual tolling agreements, physical tolling agreements, peak swap arrangements and sub-meter swaps;
- Capacity Investment Scheme, access rights and LTESA tenders: clients on their bids to secure Renewable Energy Zone access rights and underwriting support agreements, including from an initial 'go / no go' decision through to submission of the Financial Value Bids;
- Brookfield / EIG: on its proposed acquisition of Origin Energy;
- Energy Corporation of NSW: on the procurement of the 850MW Waratah Super Battery, as part of the NSW Government’s Electricity Infrastructure Investment Roadmap;
- Meridian Energy: on its divestment of its Australian energy business;
- Zen Energy: on its power purchase agreements, short-term energy and LGC trades and reallocation transactions;
- Macquarie / Engie: on the development of the 150MW utility-scale battery at Hazelwood;
- Acciona: on the development of the 923MW Macintyre wind farm project in Queensland;
- John Laing: on the divestment of its portfolio of wind farms in Australia;
- Corporate PPAs: clients across a range of industries in relation to corporate power purchase agreements with green energy facilities, adopting a variety of different structures, and acting for both the buyer and seller. Clients include Goldwind, Genex, Newcrest, CBA, Orora, Victorian water corporations and Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils;
- Westcoast Wind: in relation to the development and divestment of the 109MW Granville Harbour Wind Farm in Tasmania;
- Alinta: on the $53.3 million sale of a 70% interest in the Yandin Wind Farm;
- AGL and PARF (now PowAR): on the establishment of its Powering Australian Renewables Fund, and on the sale and project financing of the Broken Hill and Nyngan solar farms and the Silverton and Coopers Gap wind farms into the PARF; and
- CKI: regarding the CKI consortium's proposed $13 billion takeover of the APA Group.