Allens has appointed Melissa Keane as a partner in its Projects team, effective 1 January 2019. With considerable experience in transactional projects, particularly energy projects, Melissa will ...

Allens has advised First Solar on the financing of its 87 megawatt Beryl Solar Farm development. Allens also advised First Solar on the engineering, procurement and construction; operations and ...

Allens has advised Rio Tinto on the recently announced series of divestments of its coal assets in Queensland for US$4.15 billion. The transactions comprise binding agreements to sell Rio Tinto's ...

After more than three years of inertia, the Australian renewable energy industry is finally showing signs of a resurgence ...

As the saying goes never let a good crisis go to waste The Finkel Review commissioned after blackouts in South Australia and delivered by Australias Chief Scientist last week may prove to be the right report at the right time to garner support for energy and emissions policy positions that could ...

In the fourth of our series analysing the Finkel Review we look at Dr Finkels assessment of the critical data needs in the National Electricity Market NEM including a key recommendation that by the end of 2018 the proposed Energy Security Board in collaboration with the Australian Energy Regulator ...

While much of the commentary on the Finkel Review has been around a clean energy target a number of very important but very technical issues relating to system security were also canvassed The Review recognised that system security characteristics should be valued and regulated in addition to the ...

Allens Partners Ben Farnsworth Michael Ryan and Tim Stewart were part of the global panel analysing the boom in renewables in the Australian project finance market In Getting the Deal Throughs third annual issue focusing on the global project finance markets Ben Michael and Tim look at the trends ...

With large-scale privatisations slowing and intense competition for assets that do come to market institutional investors are looking to non-traditional assets to provide similar long-term stable and predictable returns ...

The NT Government has released the Roadmap to Renewables report which considers how the Government could successfully implement a policy to achieve half of the Territorys energy requirements from renewable sources by 2030 ...