Supporting the energy transition through flexible, resilient power infrastructure
As power systems worldwide transition to higher penetrations of renewable generation, energy storage has become an important component of the energy transition. Storage assets play a key role in managing intermittency, enhancing grid resilience, and enabling flexible, reliable power systems – while unlocking value across frequency response, balancing, capacity, and optimization markets.
DLA Piper advises clients across the full energy storage value chain, supporting developers, investors, lenders, and operators on projects and portfolios globally. Our experience spans battery energy storage systems (BESS), pumped hydropower, and advanced compressed air solutions and extends across the United Kingdom and Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia.
Energy storage projects often sit at the intersection of power markets, grid regulation, infrastructure development, and finance while frequently operating within evolving regulatory frameworks.
The firm’s multidisciplinary teams advise across every stage of the project and investment lifecycle, including grid connection, access, and dispatch arrangements; power purchase agreements, offtake, and merchant exposure; planning and permitting; mergers and acquisitions (M&A); joint ventures and corporate structuring; equity investments (including co-located renewable and storage projects); and service arrangements, regulatory issues, project finance, and dispute resolution.
