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Changing energy systems fuelling rapid industry transition and shifts
We advise on disputes arising from a wide range of utilities, from fossil power generation and renewables, to water and wastewater treatment
Our teams provide expert services globally to market leading organisations in the fast-evolving world of utilities and power generation. Facilities can range from water pipelines and sewerage plants to power stations, biomass plants and wind farms. An increasing market focus on renewable energy projects reflects the exponential growth of greener power sources driven by the rise in both investment and global awareness and by continual technological advances. With our wealth of experience of these complex, high-value facilities, we advise on all project planning and dispute matters. These include guidance on contract rights and obligations as well as providing independent expert witness services in formal dispute resolution proceedings.
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Utilities
Sustainable wind farm delays resolved through adjudication
Delay expert services for an onshore wind farm project delivered on a remote peat moorland in the North West of England with special environmental, social and economic sensitivities ...
Delay expert services for a 30MW onshore wind farm project delivered on a remote peat moorland in the North West of England, which has a special set of environmental, social and economic sensitivities. The 12-turbine site has since been nominated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Produced an independent expert report for an adjudication hearing regarding project delay and an extension of time claim.

Utilities
Delay issues resolved on West African thermal power plant expansion
Appointed as expert to resolve complex, concurrent delay issues on a US$330m power plant expansion project in Ghana, the country's first independent power project ...
Appointed as expert to resolve complex, concurrent delay issues on a US$330m power plant expansion project on the coast of Ghana, the country’s first independent power plant. Expansion involved conversion of an existing gas-fired plant into a combined-cycle unit with the addition of two heat recovery steam generators, a steam turbine generator and a seawater desalination plant, increasing plant capacity from 220MW to 330MW. Issues included concurrent Employer and Contractor delay events and uncertainty about the status of ‘live’ project works.

Utilities
Quantum support for eco-friendly Southern African hydro scheme
Instructed to provide quantum expert services for underground civils works associated with a US$3.5bn pumped-storage power station in an extremely sensitive ecosystem in Southern Africa ...
Instructed to provide quantum expert services for underground civils works associated with a US$3.5bn pumped-storage power station in an extremely sensitive ecosystem in Southern Africa. The 1,332MW hydroelectric scheme comprises upper and lower dams 4.6km apart, connected by underground waterways passing through a subterranean power house with 4 x 333MW generators. Key issues investigated included NEC principle dispute on valuation methodology, challenge to adjudicator's decisions, and disputed variations.

Utilities
Advisory services for waste-to-energy facility feeding national grid
Provided advisory services relating to a biomethane-to-grid project in South West England, designed to convert organic materials into gas and electricity ...
Provided advisory services relating to a biomethane-to-grid project in South West England. The 1MW anaerobic digestion (AD) facility is designed to convert organic materials from local food and agricultural waste into gas and electricity, feeding biogas directly into the UK national grid as renewable bio-methane. Reviewed Contractor’s entitlement to an extension of time, which had a direct bearing on the validity of the termination of the contract, following equipment issues and crop feedstock deficiencies.