James is a Legal Director at Eversheds Sutherland specialising in the grid, regulatory and real estate elements of site development, sale, acquisition, power purchase and financing of renewable energy and infrastructure projects.
James has advised developers, funders and investors of all major clean energy technologies including wind (onshore and offshore), solar (ground based and commercial and residential rooftop), wave and tidal, biomass, anaerobic digestion, battery storage as well as related projects including data centre, infrastructure and interconnector schemes.
Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, James was a senior legal adviser in the Commercial Networks Team at Ofgem, with a focus on the regulatory and funding aspects of nuclear, CCUS (carbon capture usage and storage) and offshore transmission technologies.
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His experience includes:
- advising generators and offtakers with respect to power purchase strategies involving a range of generation technologies and power volumes
- advising generation and demand users of grid infrastructure at the distribution and transmission level concerning grid connection arrangements
- advising hydrogen offtakers relating to offtake strategies in the context of the Hydrogen Allocation Rounds
- negotiations on behalf of developers and investors opposite The Crown Estate concerning the extensions to Round 3 offshore wind projects and Round 4 offshore wind leasing
- advising developers of major interconnector projects concerning the acquisition of offshore and onshore rights from The Crown Estate and other landowners
- Recognised energy expert by LexisNexis and has authored articles with respect to real estate aspects of clean energy technologies.
- Legal Practice Course (Distinction), Cardiff Law School, 2007 – 2008
- LLB (Hons) Law (First), Cardiff University, 2004 – 2007